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Overview

Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374521677
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 01/01/1975
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 861,692
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.

Table of Contents

Preface.

S/Z Appendices.

1. Sarrasine, by Honoré de Balzac.

2. Sequence of Actions.

3. Summary of Contents.

4. Key.

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