Roland Barthes

by Roland Barthes

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809013851
• ISBN13: 9780809013852
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Strange and Brilliant

For the Roland Barthes fan--or any budding postmodernist--an absolute must read. Strange, often baffling, Barthes uses the "autobiographical" form to write what is part criticism, part poetry, part myth and part "true story"--if its not too unpostmodern to even use the word true. The title suggests it all--Barthes becomes his text, and vice-versa. Not a beach read, for sure, but very interesting nonetheless.