On His Trapeze
Michael Wood: Roland Barthes, 17 November 2016
Barthes: A Biography
by Tiphaine Samoyault, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 586 pp., £25, December 2016,978 1 5095 0565 4 Show More
by Tiphaine Samoyault, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 586 pp., £25, December 2016,
“... were busy thinking they were philosophers – and perhaps the only novel he needed to write. Tiphaine Samoyault is a little uncertain about Barthes’s status, sure only about his fame and his deserving protracted attention. She says he is a ‘great thinker’ – well, actually that he is ‘like all great thinkers’ – but didn’t produce ... ”