ALBUM: UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE AND TEXTS: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Barthes, Roland (Author) & Gladding, Jody (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0231179863 / ISBN 13: 9780231179867

Edité par New York City, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018, 2018

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1st Printing. 385 pages. Published in 2018. Massive correspondence of the author. His intellectual autobiography. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. Presents Roland Barthes' "Album: Unpublished Correspondence And Texts". The single most valuable volume in the "European Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism". "Provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes' life of letters. Correspondence from his adolescence in the 1930's through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes' thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works as well as a rich archive of epistolary friendships among the leading intellectuals of the day. Barthes was one of the great observers of language and culture, and 'Album' shows him in his element, immersed in heady French intellectual culture and the daily struggles to maintain a writing life. Barthes' correspondents included Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Levi-Strauss, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marthe Robert, and Jean Starobinski, among others. Features documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile; unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars. A comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics and philosophers of the twentieth century and the world of letters in which he lived and breathed" (Publisher' blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Roland Barthes collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please not: Copies available online have serious flaws ("Good", "Very Good"), are former library copies, and are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. The greatest European culture critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROLAND BARTHES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0231179863.

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• Titre: ALBUM: UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE AND TEXTS: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Éditeur: New York City, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0231179863
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780231179867
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: no

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Synopsis

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works, as well as a rich archive of epistolary friendships, spanning half a century, among the leading intellectuals of the day.

Barthes was one of the great observers of language and culture, and Album shows him in his element, immersed in heady French intellectual culture and the daily struggles to maintain a writing life. Barthes's correspondents include Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marthe Robert, and Jean Starobinski, among others. The book also features documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile; unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics and philosophers of the twentieth century and the world of letters in which he lived and breathed.

À propos de l?auteur

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His works include Mythologies, S/Z, A Lover's Discourse, and Camera Lucida. Barthes's final seminars, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) (2005); The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) (2010); and How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (2012), are also published by Columbia University Press.

Jody Gladding is a poet and author most recently of Translations from Bark Beetle. She has translated thirty works from French, for which she has received grants from the Centre National du Livre and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.