Roland Barthes

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Literature / Cultural Studies / Philosophy
"In Roland Barthes, the critic has at last turned toward himself as the text to be studied. The result is a highly unconventional 'autobiography' (splendidly translated) which is brilliant and baffling by turns."
— Peter Brunette, Washington Post Book World
"Barthes is an extraordinary virtuoso— Highly original, extremely fertile and inventive He continually discovers new ways of writing about writing." — Frank Kermode, New York Times Book Review
" [Barthes] realizes that his greatest achievement is not what he is, nor even what he has done, but rather how he has done it. So his self-portrait is not primarily a recollection of events or earlier works. It is, rightly, a delineation of the method rather than the man. And so persuasive or provocative are its assertions and associations that it is impossible to read this portrait of a style passively."
— Jacob Stockinger, San Francisco Review of Books
"Barthes par Barthes is a... Tovább

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Literature / Cultural Studies / Philosophy
"In Roland Barthes, the critic has at last turned toward himself as the text to be studied. The result is a highly unconventional 'autobiography' (splendidly translated) which is brilliant and baffling by turns."
— Peter Brunette, Washington Post Book World
"Barthes is an extraordinary virtuoso— Highly original, extremely fertile and inventive He continually discovers new ways of writing about writing." — Frank Kermode, New York Times Book Review
" [Barthes] realizes that his greatest achievement is not what he is, nor even what he has done, but rather how he has done it. So his self-portrait is not primarily a recollection of events or earlier works. It is, rightly, a delineation of the method rather than the man. And so persuasive or provocative are its assertions and associations that it is impossible to read this portrait of a style passively."
— Jacob Stockinger, San Francisco Review of Books
"Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely postmodern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words."
— Hayden White, University of California
ROLAND BARTHES was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Rumania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology arid lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
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