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Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes (Hardcover)
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Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes (Hardcover)
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'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 'Soirees 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in the archive, unpublished and largely unseen; it is not clear if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.
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