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Roland Barthes

Mythologies
Roland Barthes

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Beautiful reissue of this unique classic collection, featuring a newly translated essay not included in previous collections

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mas... Buy or find out more 


A Lover's Discourse
Roland Barthes

$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. ... Buy or find out more 



Incidents
Roland Barthes

$33.95 – Paperback book / Univ Chicago Pr

In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "SoirÉes de Paris" in which he g... Buy or find out more 


Mourning Diary
Roland Barthes

$37.95 – Hardcover book / Hill & Wang

A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief

The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Ta... Buy or find out more 



Pleasure Of The Text
Roland Barthes

$17.95 – Paperback book / Hill & Wang

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism ....

Roland Barthes By Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes

$20.95 – Paperback book / Hill & Wang

First published in 1977,Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist’s most original work—a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes’s ... Buy or find out more 



A Lover's Discourse Fragments
Roland Barthes

$21.95 – Paperback book / Hill & Wang

A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe’s... Buy or find out more 


Camera Lucida Reflections On Photography
Roland Barthes

$19.95 – Paperback book / Hill & Wang

A graceful, contemplative volume,Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of langu... Buy or find out more 



Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A graceful, contemplative volume,Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of langu...

Writing Degree Zero
Roland Barthes

$17.95 – Paperback book / Hill & Wang

In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical pe...


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