Laurent Binet's new novel starts with the death of French literary critic Roland Barthes and spins out a postmodern mystery packed with... "Life is not a novel. Or at least you would like to believe ...
Nearly three decades after he was hit and fatally injured by a laundry van in a Paris street, the French literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes still enjoys rare prestige in his native land as ...
On , the day after his mother died, French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes began the “Mourning Diary”—a series of reflections written on small pieces of paper the size ...
The very title of Roland Barthes’s book “Mythologies,” which just came out in a new translation by Richard Howard and Annette Lavers, is a misnomer. There’s nothing of Sisyphus or Oedipus in the fifty ...
“What Is Sport?”: Who better to answer than Barthes?This long overdue paperback is full of the kinds of quips and pithy profundities one expects from philosophy (and TV) done the French way.
In the first sentence of a review concerning the posthumous publication of Roland Barthes' journals: Nearly three decades after he was hit and fatally injured by a laundry van in a Paris street, the ...
Tiphaine Samoyault, trans. from the French by Andrew Brown. Polity, $39.95 (584p) ISBN 978-1-5095-0565-4 Samoyault, with the help of rare primary sources, brings to life Roland Barthes, a famous ...
Roland Barthes the French literary critic, theorist and philosopher died an absurd death. In 1980 he was hit by a laundry van in Paris, while walking home from a lunch given by François Mitterrand, ...