Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
ISBN:
9782020260923 (2020260921)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Editions du Seuil
Pages no: 159
Edition language: French
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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