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title: "A Roland Barthes Reader"
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# A Roland Barthes Reader

**Brand:** roland barthes
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2014*

very pleased

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A French Intellectual but not for the Faint-hearted
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2016*

The late American writer, Susan Sontag, compiled this anthology shortly before Roland Barthes' death in 1980. She makes the extravagant claim that "of all the intellectual notables who have emerged since World War II in France, Roland Barthes is the one whose work I am most certain will endure."  I am yet to be convinced. Even in English translation, Barthes'  logic is hard to follow, so I haven't yet dared to attempt to study the original French. To take a random quote, do you think that "syntagmatic consciousness is a consciousness of the relations which unite signs on the level of discourse itself"? Barthes thinks so (p 215). But like so many statements in his writings, the opposite claim is equally plausible. So is Barthes a great philosopher, or a candidate for Private Eye's "Pseuds corner"?.  I bought this book in the hope of discovering which, if any, of Barthes writings I would like to read in full. To that extent the book has fulfilled its purpose; in the end my favorite was his early essay (page18ff) on a rather unlikely topic, "The Word of Wrestling".

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    Un écrivain insigne
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2020*

I am not commenting on the quality of the writing or the mediocrity of certain translations. The vintage edition I received gives a chemical odeur and the quality of the print is not good.

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