Bit by Bit
John Sturrock, 22 December 1994
Roland Barthes: A Biography
by Louis-Jean Calvet, translated by Sarah Wykes.
Polity, 291 pp., £25, October 1994,9780745610177 Show More
by Louis-Jean Calvet, translated by Sarah Wykes.
Polity, 291 pp., £25, October 1994,
“... What should a man famous for having wished the Author dead wish for himself once he becomes a dead author? To leave no trace behind would seem right. But if Roland Barthes was hostile to the neighbourly image of the Author as an extra-textual being, he took pleasure in the thought of himself returning as a biographical subject (i.e. object) once he was dead ... ”