Two key texts in the development of semiology and structuralism by a master of literary criticism
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
No one addresses himself to language so persistently or ingeniously
as Barthes
*Independent on Sunday*
[Writing Degree Zero is] a sweeping account of French
literature...cemented Barthes' presence on the academic scene
*Washington Post*
A writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be
admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination
*New York Times*
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