The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes (Softcover)

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Published by Hill and Wang, 1975
Perfect-bound softcover
67 pages
8x5.5 inches

Very good condition with light foxing to page edges. Binding tight.

“Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure.” ―Susan Sontag

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Published by Hill and Wang, 1975
Perfect-bound softcover
67 pages
8x5.5 inches

Very good condition with light foxing to page edges. Binding tight.

“Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure.” ―Susan Sontag

Published by Hill and Wang, 1975
Perfect-bound softcover
67 pages
8x5.5 inches

Very good condition with light foxing to page edges. Binding tight.

“Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure.” ―Susan Sontag

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