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    <body><![CDATA[The text is pleasurable. The text is bliss. Barthes perforates the being of the text, he pinpoints the ineffability of the greatness of the truly great writers. He writes about Nietzsche, about Sade, about Flaubert, and many others. Unlike the general dynamic of French post-modernity and post-struct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34784987">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One particularly lovely piece:<br/><br/>If I read this sentence, this story, or this word with pleasure, it is because they were written with pleasure (such pleasure does not contradict the writer’s complaints). But the opposite? Does writing in pleasure guarantee–guarantee me, the writer–th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35032948">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent attempt to answer Susan Sontag's call for &quot;an erotics of reading.&quot;  A pleasure to read, as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[barthes towards the 2nd half of his writing, where he is in love with semiotics.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not remember what caused me to take this slender volume from the University stacks. In general, I am not fond of philosophy for casual reading. I'm not even sure what lead me to discover this text exists. But I enjoyed reading the translated poetry of Barthes writing as the masses around me swi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43517100">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[لذت متن كتاب فوق العاده اي بود<br/>ولي حس كردم بايد بزرگ تر بشم تا بيشتر دركش كنم<br/>درك كمي ازش داشتم ولي اين علاوه بر كم دونستن من به خاطر سختي متن بارت هم هست<br/>توي ام...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34559992">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute &quot;perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge.&quot; --Richard Howard<br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this in an afternoon.  A good short excursion into literary &quot;value.&quot;  By approaching the concept of the pleasure/bliss of reading from multiple angles in short episodes, Barthes manages to provide the starting point for so much individual study.  Strongly recommended to any l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9281748">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleh. I was interested in the beginning when he compared reading/writing to the intimacy of sex, but then he kinda lost me with difficult concepts and thoughts where I was thinking, &quot;What??&quot; It's only 67 pages...but I was forcing myself to finish after page 22.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a significant portion of this in a class on the &quot;genre of poetry&quot;.  It's quite beautiful if somewhat difficult to pierce (that's a literary pun if I read the book right).  Anyway, I need to read it all.  Rating is based on what I thought of what I read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best Barthes I've ever read. It's playful, clever, and exemplary of precisely what he's setting forth, ideological haiku from a writer who deeply, passionately loves words, writing, reading and readers. I cannot recommend this enough.]]></body>
    
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