Roland Barthes Quotes


Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.


Citations

Barthes, Roland. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Translated by Richard Howard, Hill and Wang, 1978, p. 73.

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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
  • Born: November 12, 1915
  • Died: March 26, 1980
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Critic

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism. He was particularly known for developing and extending the field of semiotics through the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.