The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980

This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Litteraire, Cahiers du Cinema, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism in his unique voice; here we have Barthes in conversation, speaking directly, with all his individuality. These interviews provide an insight into the rich, probing intelligence of one of the great and influential minds of our time.