Deliberations

The Journals of Roland Barthes

Neil Badmington (University of Cardiff, UK)

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English

Routledge
27 September 2018

Diaries, letters & journals; Literary theory; History of Western philosophy

‘I’ve never kept a journal’, Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ‘ – or, rather, I’ve never known if I should keep one’. The form itself, he continued, was inferior and ‘unnecessary’, a ‘minor mania of writing’. Barthes died months making this statement, and the years since then have revealed that he had actually been concealing a fondness for diary-writing. The publication in 1985 of Incidents brought to light an intimate journal entitled ‘Soirées de Paris’, while 2009 saw the appearance of two much longer diaries kept by Barthes following the death of his mother in 1977 and during a trip to China in 1974, respectively. Further journals lie in the archive, unpublished and largely unseen; it is not clear if these will ever enter the public domain.

This collection, which brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field, considers the present implications of Roland Barthes’ journals. How do these diaries invite us to reconsider aspects of Barthes’ work which have become familiar through his reception as one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary and cultural critics? What do they allow us to see for the first time? What is their relation to the works whose appearance Barthes authorised during his lifetime? Where and how do they fit in his oeuvre? How do they relate to each other across moment and mood? Why might they call for deliberations? This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Edited by: Neil Badmington (University of Cardiff UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367109356
ISBN 10: 0367109352
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 27 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction – Deliberations: the journals of Roland Barthes 1. Writing mourning 2. Barthes deliberates: Pascal, Ignatius and the question of the diary 3. Diary-writing and the return of Gide in Barthes’s ‘Vita Nova’ 4. Barthes and Antonioni in China: the muffling of criticism 5. Roland Barthes’s Travels in China: writing a diary of dissidence within dissidence? 6. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China 7. Punctive grace: reading religion in Barthes’ Mourning Diary 8. Mourning Diary: love’s work

Neil Badmington is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University.