Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist’s most original work—a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes’s tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.
First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist’s most original work—a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes’s tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374251468 (0374251460)
Publish date: October 12th 2010
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
Theory
Autobiography/memoir is a strange genre in the literary universe. It is at once a piece of fiction and non-fiction, a chronicle of one's memories, and a perversion of history in favor of art. In Proust, who blends the lines of autobiography, fiction, and essay in his À la recherche du temps perdu, a...
Roland Barthes, in his autobiography, Barthes by Barthes, arranges the fragments of his life in alphabetical order, deliberately subverting the artifice of presenting the continuous “flow of life” prevalent in traditional autobiographies. Barthes’ alphabetical autobiography functions like an index, ...
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