El plaer del text

What do we enjoy when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? Roland Barthes, the great French disseminator of criticism and literary theory, answers it in his own, exquisite and original way, describing in this booklet an eroticism of reading and literature that is read in a while, but not forget in a lifetime: the pleasure of the text would be the moment when the body follows its own ideas. Roland Barthes dazzles us again with his extraordinary metaphor, which compares the text to a feminine and seductive body. In the same way that it appeals to us by gradually undressing itself, the text arouses the pleasure of the readers as it is discovered. The vision of naked sex is the same pleasure that the reader experiences when understanding the text in all its depth. That is why you must avoid hasty reading, like the lover who is in a hurry to remove the clothes from his object of desire: seeing the other completely naked and seeing the text in all its power requires pause, the pause of good reading.