Barthes Album

Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54588-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence through the last years of his life. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barthes, Roland

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gladding, Jody

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Éric Marty
Death of the Father
Encounter in the English Channel on the Night of October 26–27, 1916, Between German Destroyers and the Trawler Le Montaigne
Acknowledgments
Note
Chronology
1. From Adolescence to the Romance of the Sanatorium: 1932–46
2. The First Barthes
3. The Great Ties
4. A Few Letters Regarding a Few Books
5. Exchanges
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His works include Mythologies, S/Z, A Lover's Discourse, and Camera Lucida. Barthes's final seminars, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977–1978) (2005); The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978–1979 and 1979–1980) (2010); and How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (2012), are also published by Columbia University Press.

Jody Gladding is a poet and author most recently of Translations from Bark Beetle. She has translated thirty works from French, for which she has received grants from the Centre National du Livre and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.