Roland Barthes

by Roland Barthes

Book Overview

""Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520087836
• ISBN13: 9780520087835
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.9"

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.