Name: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979
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Author: Barthes, Roland ; Howard, Richard ; Howard, Richard
ISBN: 9780374533113

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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979

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Physical Book

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Translated by

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Publisher

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0374533113

ISBN13

9780374533113

Synopsis "Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979 "

In the sentence 'She's no longer suffering, ' to what, to whom does 'she' refer? What does that present tense mean? --Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing. Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement, Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes's work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief--intimate, deeply moving, and universal.

Roland Barthes

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(1915-1980) He was one of the most important intellectual figures to emerge in post-war France, and his writings are still, to this day, the subject of study and discussion. This French critic and essayist developed much of his work in an ambiguous space between linguistics and literature. Among his books, his semiological studies on the image gained great recognition. In 1977, he was appointed to the chair of Literary Semiology at the Collège de France, which was specially created for him on the advice of Michel Foucault. Barthes defined himself as "an uncertain subject": too literary for linguists, too linguist for literary critics. Perhaps it is this trait that has made him one of the most influential thinkers and theorists in his field.

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