On His Trapeze
Michael Wood: Roland Barthes, 17 November 2016
Barthes: A Biography
by Tiphaine Samoyault, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 586 pp., £25, December 2016,978 1 5095 0565 4 Show More
by Tiphaine Samoyault, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 586 pp., £25, December 2016,
“... and she has some extended lucid comments on the connections and disconnections between Barthes and Blanchot, Derrida and Lévi-Strauss. None of this quite situates him as anything other than some sort of French intellectual, and indeed it is hard to situate him more precisely. Samoyault’s idea of ‘a politically committed solitude’ doesn’t help ... ”
