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- 9780231179867
- Book Title
- Album : Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
- Book Series
- European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
- Original Language
- French
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, European / French, Letters, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
- Item Weight
- 30.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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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 L vi-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 The book also features documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile; unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars.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.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231179863
ISBN-13
9780231179867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240361740
Product Key Features
Original Language
French
Book Title
Album : Unpublished Correspondence and Texts
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Cultural Heritage, European / French, Letters, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Book Series
European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
30.7 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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The 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., It does not propose to tell a story, but picks out moments, connections, elements of a life, and this is its contribution, methodological as much as it is informational, to Barthes studies., The 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., [ Album ] offers charming insights into the famous literary critic's development as a writer and thinker. . . . This new glimpse into a celebrated career will be rewarding to Barthes scholars., This wonderful book locates the elusive Roland Barthes--the very notion hints at its impossibility--in his various worlds: in the sanatorium, in literary and academic Paris, in the long escapade of structuralism and after. It succeeds in this attempt not by trying to define him but by allowing him to place himself among his friends and his books, among his colleagues and his projects. One of his dreams, he said, was 'to disappear and still be close by.' Here we begin to see how he managed to do just that., Roland Barthes was my friend since 1957, though I've never had a friend whose offering exacted so little from anyone and so richly fulfilled the rewards of our intimacy--except for the pleasure of Roland's texts, that are now beyond mourning. Roland arranged to take his mother and me from Paris to New York in the mid 1960s--her first visit since 1904 and her first air travel to the newly named Kennedy Airport, landing on top of a city Madame Barthes could never have imagined from her first encounter with it, and from then on everything was all pleasure. Moreover my discovery that his mother did not read his texts, and that Roland did not expect her to, eased some family tensions of my own. Roland was faithful to what Walter Pater, whom he had never heard of, calls "the administration of the visible", for Roland adored the physical world: "Desire still irritates the non-will-to-possess by this perilous movement. I love you in my head, but imprison you behind my lips. I do not divulge. I speak silently to who is not yet or is no longer the other: I keep myself from loving you." ( A Lover's Discourse .) The accents are those of Socrates, the first--as Roland was the latest--Docent of Desire. In his last letter, before he was run down by that laundry-truck: "Since Maman's death there has been a scission in my life, in my psyche, and I have less courage to undertake things. Don't hold it against me. Ne m'en veuille pas. ", The letters and manuscripts in this volume help the reader to understand not only the kinds of relationships that Barthes had, but also their nature., This publication underscores his contribution to 21st century French intellectual culture and his impact on literary studies., Album offers valuable insight, not only into the particulars of Barthes's life, but also into the themes that haunted his writing, making it a worthwhile resource for Barthes scholars and ordinary readers alike.
Lccn
2017-039160
Lc Classification Number
P85.B33a4 2018
Table of Content
Foreword, 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 Montaigne Acknowledgments 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
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2018
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