Roland Barthes (1915-1980). French Social theorist, Literary critic and Semiotician. A prolific writer and thinker, who coined the phrase The death of the author.
Books By Barthes
- A Barthes Reader
- Camera Lucida
- Critical Essays
- The Eiffel Tower and other Mythologies
- Elements of Semiology
- The Empire of the Signs
- The Fashion System
- The Grain of the Voice
- Image-Music-Text
- A Lovers Discourse. A beautiful and original work that stands somehwere between poetry and criticism. It is considered a novel by some.
- Michelet
- Mythologies . A particularly pleasant starting point, especially the famous first (The World of Wresting) and last (Mythologies) essays.
- New Critical Essays
- On Racine
- The Pleasure of the Text
- The Responsibility of Forms
- Roland Barthes (book)
- The Rustle of Language
- Sade /Fourier /Loyola
- The Semiotic Challenge
- S/Z
- Writing Degree Zero