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Essays

Roland Barthes

1979151 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Hill and Wang · 151 pages · ENGISBN 9780809041152
  • 1979Noonday Press · 151 pages · ENG
  • 1979Hill & Wang · 152 pages · ENG
  • 1997University of California Press · 151 pages · ENGISBN 9780520209824

In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine - and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.

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