A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.
The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature.
By:
Roland Barthes,
Chris Turner
Edited by:
Chris Turner
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 8mm,
Width: 5mm,
Spine: 1mm
ISBN: 9781803092768
ISBN 10: 1803092769
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Pre-Novels Recovering the Unburies Treasure (On Popular Poetry) The Man-Eater (On Zola’s Nana) Maupassant and the Physics of Misfortune The Cathedrals of Novels (On Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris) Round Table Discussions New Pathways of Literary Criticism in France A Personal Statement on Robbe-Grillet The Two Sociologies of the Novel Alain Girard: ‘The Diary’ Parallel Lives Pleasure in Language Edoardo Sanguineti Preface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume VIII) Preface (to Jacques Prévert, Fatras) Argument and Prospectus: A Letter to Philippe Roger Preface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume IX) Interview-Preface to Littérature occidentale From Them to Us ‘It All Comes Together’ Masculine, Feminine, Neuter
Roland Barthes (1915–80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.
Reviews for """Masculine, Feminine, Neuter"" and Other Writings on Literature"
"""Given the diversity of these pieces in terms of history and content, it is crucial that the translator has made a good job of briefly contextualizing all the pieces and that the translations understand, especially in relation to the gendering that operates in the French language and to some of the more recondite references, that the renderings into English need, periodically, the helping-hand of an attuned and scholarly – that is experienced – editor and translator of Barthes."" * H-France Review *"
