Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of
letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his
adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to
the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships,
intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an
intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday
reflection behind the composition of his works, as well as a rich
archive of epistolary friendships, spanning half a century, among
the leading intellectuals of the day. Barthes was one of the great
observers of language and culture, and Album shows him in his
element, immersed in heady French intellectual culture and the
daily struggles to maintain a writing life. Barthes's
correspondents include Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques
Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Levi-Strauss,
Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marthe Robert,
and Jean Starobinski, among others. The book also features
documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile;
unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars.
The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album
is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics
and philosophers of the twentieth century and the world of letters
in which he lived and breathed.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Release date: |
February 2018 |
| Authors: |
Roland Barthes
|
| Translators: |
Jody Gladding
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Trade binding
|
| Pages: |
392 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-17986-7 |
| Languages: |
English
|
| Subtitles: |
French
|
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literary & linguistic reference works >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-231-17986-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780231179867 |
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