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Roland Barthes

"Barthespar Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words."—Hayden White, University of California

Themes
art
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
short · 186 pages
Form
essays

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“People who read Roland Barthes tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
  2. Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing
  3. Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
  4. Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter

“If you want more of the same (philosophy about art), start with these.”

  1. Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
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  4. Russell: A Very Short Introduction

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  1. The Writing of the Disaster
  2. Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
  3. Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life
  4. Reveries of the Solitary Walker

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