Roland Barthes por Roland Barthes

In this book, Roland Barthes tries to explain himself through small fragments about his life and work. We are far, then, from the erudite Barthes and much closer to the man who hid behind those fundamental works that, in the context of the effervescent France of the sixties and seventies, revolutionized the vision of literature and art, cinema and modern life in general. Through images chosen by himself and accurate and concise words, Barthes draws a complete and fascinating self-portrait, in which he reviews his favorite subjects -books, the signs of contemporary civilization, fashion, sexuality- from a point of view now free from academic biases. Speaking in the third person, as if it were a novel with which he wanted to understand himself from a distance, he tries to flee from his public figure to get closer to his own person understood as an enigma to be deciphered: "There is no more biography than of the unproductive life. As soon as I produce, as soon as I write, it is the Text itself that (fortunately) deprives me of my narrative duration. The text cannot tell anything; it takes my body elsewhere, far from my person imaginary, towards a kind of language without memory... ".