The Hypothesis Of A Book

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Barthes liked "to write beginnings" and multiplied this pleasure by writing books of fragments, of repeated beginnings; he also liked pre-beginnings: "introductions, sketches," ideas for projected books, books he planned one day to write. So when Nathalie Léger, editor of Mourning Diary, describes it as "the hypothesis of a book desired by him," she is accurate in that it was neither finished nor intended for publication; but she is also...