Variaciones sobre la escritura

In fact, the title of an article that Roland Barthes wrote in 1973, Variations on writing, is presented as a compilation of texts by its author that cover the phenomenon in question from all perspectives: topics such as grammar and linguistics, of course. , but also authors such as Benveniste, Jakobson or Laporte, structure a theoretical mosaic in which there is also room for notes on Barthes's own reflections on the matter or even comments as unusual as the one dedicated to the Hachette dictionary. From his perspective as a semiotician, Barthes sees writing not as a procedure that we use to immobilize and fix articulated language, which is always fugitive in nature. Quite the contrary, for him writing goes far beyond, so to speak statutorily, not only oral language, but also language itself, if we confine it, as most linguists want, to a pure function of communication. The reflection that is established from here is, as always in the case of Barthes, as daring as it is transgressive, since he ends up turning his own texts into a creative act far beyond scholarly analysis.