Roland Barthes
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520087835 (0520087836)
Publish date: September 28th 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 186
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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