Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Bartheswas a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 November 1915
CountryFrance
dream unions gestures
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other...
reading guests process
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
art progress mutation
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
love-is lasts kind
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
pain literature choke
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
power guilt blame
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
love-you mourning facts
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
sentimental
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
shining literature moments
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
writing
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
modern bother
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
names two profound
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
sight conditions
The necessary condition for an image is sight,
writing voice destruction
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.