Not having read this, in English or French, in lo, these many years, I can't speak to the quality of the translation. The pictures still charm, the story still delights. Library copy read in English 1/1/1976 or so read in French 8/1/1988 or so (the only thing I ever did manage to read in French,...
I am somehow to my last In Search of Lost Time review. I'm not sure how this has happened, as it doesn't seem like almost a year ago that I was first ordering Swann's Way and reading the first few pages. I was reading about sleep, falling asleep, and reading about mint tea before violent episodes of...
bookshelves: winter20092010, published-1964, france, mystery-thriller, books-with-a-passport Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Moxysox Recommended for: Post onto Clare Read in December, 2009 In the dimness of the café, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda ...
Barthes' mother died on October 25, 1977. Her son, Roland, being an invalid-type had been nursed and coddled by her most of his life, but in their years of his mother's illness adopted the role of nurse himself. Barthes' relationship with his mother was one of extreme intimacy: he lived with her his...
The Little Prince is a novella which tells the story of a pilot (the narrator, himself) who got stuck on a dessert. And the Little Prince -- a blond child who claims he comes from an altogether small planet.As we read through the novella, we learn that the Prince's meager world is occupied by three ...
Ne znam zašto se baš nje uhvatih, kad me čeka toliko lakših za "kritičarenje". Pojma nemam. Lepa je. Lepo se čita. Lepo se podvlači (uz grižu savesti ili bez nje, kako kad) svaka dotad nepodvučena rečenica. Lepo se prstima mokrim od suza mrljaju komentari na marginama pri kraju. Ti si zauvek odg...
I was given this book when I was a child, and of course, I didn't know what the hell this guy was talking about. I got lost in all his symbolism and it made me feel too stupid (a recurring feeling). Boxes, planets, asteroids, snakes, weird men, baobabs. I re-read it later, and I loved it. As I grew ...
Barthes' most famous contribution to the semiotics school of structuralism, post-structuralism: though not his most-read according to GoodReads (an accolade reserved for Camera Lucida). While I love all of the Barthes that I have read, I think this should be required reading somewhere (the first par...
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