Roland Barthes
French literary critic, essayist, and academic
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It is language which speaks, not the author.
—Roland Barthes, French literary critic, essayist, and academic, The Death of the Author, 1968
Posted on March 21, 1998 at 7:32 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little.
—Roland Barthes, French literary critic, essayist, and academic, A Lover's Discourse
Posted on June 18, 2001 at 1:52 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
—Roland Barthes, French literary critic, essayist, and academic, The Pleasure of the Text
Posted on June 6, 2001 at 11:49 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
—Roland Barthes, French literary critic, essayist, and academic, A Lovers Discourse: Fragments
Posted on May 1, 2001 at 10:45 PM
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