Description
Book SynopsisAlbum provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence through the last years of his life. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters,
Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewThe significance of this book-the first English-language publication of Barthes's correspondence-cannot be overestimated. Starting with Barthes's adolescence and the years in his late twenties spent in a sanatorium, these selected letters represent exchanges with longtime personal friends as well as many of the key figures of twentieth-century French intellectual history. -- Diana Knight, University of Nottingham
Table of ContentsForeword, by Éric Marty
Death of the Father
Encounter in the English Channel on the Night of October 26–27, 1916, Between German Destroyers and the Trawler
Le MontaigneAcknowledgments
Note
Chronology
1. From Adolescence to the Romance of the Sanatorium: 1932–46
2. The First Barthes
3. The Great Ties
4. A Few Letters Regarding a Few Books
5. Exchanges
Notes
Index
