The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician
Roland Barthes (Author)
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and
classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at
universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de
Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in
sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de
France until his death in 1980.
Adam Phillips (Introducer)
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing
Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a
visiting professor in the English department at the University of
York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and
literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change,
Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing
Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud
translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Highly original, extremely fertile and inventive, [Barthes] really
does represent, in a peculiarly qualified way, a new kind of
writing, and he continually discovers new ways of writing about
writing... It is a remarkable book
*New York Times Book Review*
Anyone who saw [Barthes] as only the stern structuralist,
dissecting signs, symbols and systems, must have missed the
personal touches that would eventually burst into the open in his
weird and wonderful “anti-autobiography” which begins with the
announcement that its contents “must all be considered as if spoken
by a character in a novel” and proceeds to jump from first to
second to third person, accumulating scenes and lists and essay
fragment
*Telegraph*
Though Barthes left behind disciples, there can be no replacing
him; his brilliance had a wavelength all its own
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