Synopsis
A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.
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About Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes
1915–1980
Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 - 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
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