Roland Barthes (1915-1980). French Social theorist[?], Literary critic and Semiotician. A prolific writer and thinker, who coined the phrase the death of the author.

Books By Barthes

• A Barthes Reader[?]
• Camera Lucida[?]
• Critical Essays[?]
• The Eiffel Tower and other Mythologies[?]
• Elements of Semiology[?]
• The Empire of the Signs[?]
• The Fashion System[?]
• The Grain of the Voice[?]
• Image-Music-Text[?]
• A Lover's Discourse[?]. A beautiful and original work that stands somehwere between poetry and criticism. It is considered a novel by some.
• Michelet [?]
• Mythologies [?]. A particularly pleasant starting point, especially the famous first (The World of Wresting) and last (Mythologies) essays.
• New Critical Essays [?]
• On Racine[?]
• The Pleasure of the Text[?]
• The Responsibility of Forms[?]
• Roland Barthes (book)[?]
• The Rustle of Language [?]
• Sade /Fourier /Loyola[?]
• The Semiotic Challenge[?]
• S/Z[?]
• Writing Degree Zero[?]