Roland Barthes

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