barthes roland translated richard howard (25 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. xix, 119 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. First published, 1980, under title: Chambre claire. Translated from the French. Good+. Stain on one leaf (pp. 17-18). *** "Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Etat : As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Etat : As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Etat : New. Brand New.

Etat : As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Etat : New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. An amazing read. Two clean solid copies available, second one with sunfading.

Etat : New. 1983. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Etat : New. 1983. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . .

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine first edition thus with one page dog-eared. About a one-inch horizontal crease mark at the top edge of the back cover. Stated: First Edition October 1964, no additional printings listed. Price intact on the front cover. 172 pages, unmarked. Mermaid Dramabook 39. A nice carefully read copy. ; DR0615 U7U; 7.20 X 4.30 X 0.50 inches; 172 pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Selected pages may contain light creases and wear along the fore edge of page margins. Minor rubbing wear to covers.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First American Edition. 30 essays analyzing "what might be called the sociopathology of everyday life". Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first American edition (first printing). Light wear to book; jacket shows light edgewear, tiny tears & short creases, spine a bit faded; some tanning to endsheets. Text clean; [6], [152] pages. Size: Small Octavo.

Etat : Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDTitle and author in ink spine, blurb stapled verso front cover, covers little soiled else very good in wrappers. Advance Uncorrected Proof. First edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First American Edition. First Edition stated. Light soiling to boards, else a clean, tight hardcover bound in quarter cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($20.50) with light soiling, but no chips nor tears. NOT ex-lib. A clean, tight copy in jacket. xii, 303pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. In VG price-clipped DJ (in protector) ; Hardcover (yellow cloth spine/brown boards). B&W illustrations. Collection of essays ; 8vo (6 X 1.25 X 8.75 inches); viii + 312 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. A few marks and scuffs on coverboards. Gift inscription top corner of front end page. PAges bright and clean, binding tight. Dustjacket is priceclipped, has edgewear and a few chips and tears.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. English Edition. Paperback. 21x13cm. x+67 pages. Flat spine. Front cover has a top corner crease. Clean & tight book. Inside front cover has a written name. No other inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref ZX-crw.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8in. 151pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows the slightest hint of toning at the endpapers, otherwise Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the slight shelf rubbing along the edges, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. Pictured.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First American Edition. X, 110 Pp. Cloth / Boards. First American Edition Stated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Excerpt Tiny Pinpoint Wear At Top Of Rear Spine Edge And A 3/16" Completely Closed Tear At Bottom Of Rear Panel Of Dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. tight copy with a few faint pencil marks to the margins. dust jacket wrapped in stickon cellophane, has a few small tears to top and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 186 pages. Published in 1977. The author's second autobiographical writing. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The second book in the final and greatest work by Roland Barthes, the trilogy that he began with "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" (1977) and concluded with "Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" (1980, published posthumously in English in 1981). The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Roland Barthes' "Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes" in a felicitous English translation by the great poet Richard Howard. Profoundly personal confessions about his life. The book is by, of, and most important, FOR the author himself. Since that sounds like the "tell-all" memoir (which it is not), it is important to clarify what Barthes' book is: A revelation, in the coolly detached French/Continental intellectual mode, where every (concrete) detail is intimately described in order to amplify a larger (abstract) idea. It is, to borrow Sartre's inimitable phrase, "the observer in the act of observing (himself) ". "Never before has Barthes spoken so freely, so joyously, precisely when he speaks so strictly, so severely about 'him'. Barthes is first and foremost, a writer, a man for whom the imaginative manipulation of language affords the means of life, the justification of his existence, the articulation of his identity" (Richard Howard). Discretion, elegance, and subtlety set Barthes' book apart from the vulgar memoir, especially of the Anglo-American kind. The more Barthes tells us about himself, the more distant he becomes, to himself and to us, his readers. The more Barthes reveals to us, the more we realize how little we can ever really know him (or ourselves). So why bother to write and to read? Answer: To liberate oneself from the limits of formal writing in order to re-invent writing as a work of the highest achievement. Therein lies his book's and trilogy's greatness and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Roland Barthes collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest European culture critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROLAND BARTHES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0809082454. no.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Thus Edition. 1st Printing. 186 pages. Published in 1988. The author's second autobiographical writing. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The second book in the final and greatest work by Roland Barthes, the trilogy that he began with "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" (1977) and concluded with "Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" (1980, published posthumously in English in 1981). The 1988 First British Expatriate/Overseas Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition, of which there are several. Published in a tiny print run as a hardcover original only. The British Expatriate/Overseas Edition was issued by MacMillan Press for its foreign/"expatriate" market and was never commercially available in the United Kingdom (or the United States). The edition uses the same papers and boards that were produced for the regular British Edition. The British Overseas Edition is now rare. Presents, in its very rare and historically significant edition in English, Roland Barthes' "Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes" in a felicitous English translation by the great poet Richard Howard. Simply amazing that a British publisher saw fit to publish a Special Edition of a relatively obscure French critic for its foreign market! After all, these are profoundly personal "confessions" about Barthes' inner life. The book is by, of, and most important, FOR the author himself. Since that sounds like the "tell-all" memoir (which it is not), it is important to clarify what Barthes' book is: A revelation, in the coolly detached French/Continental intellectual mode, where every (concrete) detail is intimately described in order to amplify a larger (abstract) idea. It is, to borrow Sartre's inimitable phrase, "the observer in the act of observing (himself) ". "Never before has Barthes spoken so freely, so joyously, precisely when he speaks so strictly, so severely about 'him'. Barthes is first and foremost, a writer, a man for whom the imaginative manipulation of language affords the means of life, the justification of his existence, the articulation of his identity" (Richard Howard). Discretion, elegance, and subtlety set Barthes' book apart from the vulgar memoir, especially of the Anglo-American kind: The more Barthes tells us about himself, the more distant he becomes, to himself and to us, his readers. The more Barthes reveals to us, the more we realize how little we can ever really know him (or ourselves). So why bother to write? Answer: To liberate oneself from the limits of formal writing in order to re-invent writing. Therein lies the book's - and his trilogy's - greatness and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Roland Barthes collectors. This title is a great book. This is the only copy of the First British Expatriate/Overseas Edition/First Printing available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: There are NO other copies of this most elusive edition available online because it was distributed abroad only, not in the United Kingdom or United States. This is the only one we have found. A rare copy thus. The greatest European culture critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROLAND BARTHES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0333434706. no.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 186 pages. Published in 1977. The author's first autobiographical writing. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first book in the final and greatest work by Roland Barthes, the trilogy that he began with this book, continued with "Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes" (1977), and concluded with "Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" (1980, published posthumously in English in 1981). The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Roland Barthes' "A Lover's Discourse" in a felicitous English translation. His single most popular book, which catapulted him to media celebrity and bestseller-dom. Profoundly personal reflections about love, these fragments "will be enjoyed by two groups of readers: Those who have been in love (or think they have, which is the same thing), who will discover that it tells the truth about their lives and languages; and those who have never been in love (or they think they have not, which is the same thing), who will discover the truth about everyone else" (Richard Howard). Every true lover is engaged in discourse because love is inexpressible through ordinary speech or writing. Hence the banality and triteness of all "I love you" expressions. Love always expresses itself as an address: To ourselves, introspectively, and to the loved one, declaratively. Writing during the terminal phase of Modernism - that some call "post-modernism", which is like an unwelcome tail to the body of Modernism -, Barthes chooses to return to the most old-fashioned (and intellectually suspect) subject of all: Love. Without necessarily realizing it at the time, Barthes did it because he yearned to liberate himself from the limits of "formal" writing, to which he had devoted his whole life, in order to re-invent writing as a work of the highest achievement, lyricism, and beauty, without rejecting critical thinking. Therein lies his trilogy's greatness and wisdom. Two posthumously published books, "Incidents" and "Mourning Diary", both of them private journals (that he never intended to be published), show that Barthes pursued "A Lover's Discourse" primarily for his own understanding and illumination: As recounted in his journals, his actual "love life" was miserable. An absolute "must-have" title for Roland Barthes collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest European culture critic of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROLAND BARTHES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0809066890. no.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In the dustwrapper designed by Mon Mohan with Jerry Bauer's photograph of Barthes to the rear panel. Top edge coloured red. Double-page frontispiece of Girodet's 'Endymion Sleeping'. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Light offsetting to the front free endpaper and a few (barely visible) light spots to the fore-edge of the page block. Small rough patch to the outer lower edge of a handful of pages (a production issue, again barely noticeable). In the bright, clean dustwrapper, without fading or tears, just the merest rubbing to outer corners. Not price-clipped (£4.50 net to the front flap). A particularly sharp copy, uncommon thus. One of the great works of twentieth-century literary criticism, Barthes' analysis of Balzac's little known novella, 'Sarrasine' (the text of which is included in an appendix) is anything but a dry, theoretical exercise. A distillation of Barthes's system of signs and symbols, the work patiently uncovers unsuspected networks and layers of meaning in Balzac's text. Barthes weaves his beguiling labyrinth with a sensuous relish and cool intelligence governed by pleasure: of writer and reader alike. In his prefatory note, Richard Howard describes 'S/Z' as "the most useful, the most intimate, and the most suggestive book I have ever read about why I have ever read a book. It is, by the way, useful, intimate, and suggestive about Balzac's tale 'Sarrasine', which the reader of the readerly will find reassembled at the end of this writerly book, 'en appendice', as the French say." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. xi, 271 pages ; 23 cm. contains a newspaper clipping review. Semantic study of Balzac's novella 'Sarrasine', of which the text (in English) is included on pages 221-254.