Roland Barthes

un regard politique sur le signe.

by Louis Jean Calvet, Calvet, Louis Jean

1973 291 pages eng

This is the first biography of Roland Barthes - one of the most important European intellectuals of the postwar years. In a lively and engaging account of Barthes's life and work, Calvet follows the brilliant semiotician from his provincial origins to his sudden death in 1980. He describes Barthes's…