Album - Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

Zusatztext The book can be read by everyone without any kind of difficulty. . . Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor 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 Collège 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...

Product details

• Authors: Roland Barthes, Barthes Roland
• Assisted by: Jody Gladding (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780231179874
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17987-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / French, Language: reference & general, Literary theory, Diaries, letters and journals, letters; philosophers