What Is Sport?

by Roland Barthes

Book Overview

A little-known gem, the text of Barthes's What Is Sport? was never reprinted in the Seuil editions of his Complete Works--neither the three-volume version nor the later five-volume edition. It is published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the text for a documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin, What Is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300116047
• ISBN13: 9780300116045
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 6.1"