The Pleasure of the Text

Name: The Pleasure of the Text
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by Roland Barthes

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The Pleasure of the Text

by Roland Barthes

1 rating • 1 review • 2 shelved

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ISBN10 0374521603
ISBN13 9780374521608
Publish Date 1 January 1975
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Format Paperback
Pages 77
Language English

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Poetical, fragmented, and elusive. The Pleasure of the Text's form is an expression of its content - its mission to seduce the reader, to tiptoe along the edge of comprehension to induce a state of bliss.

Things I learnt:
- Barthes likes Nietzsche
- I do not remember Barthes' theory on the death of the author as well as I thought I did
- There is still room for vocabulatory improvement (fancy words include phalanstery, ideolects, paradisiac, delectative, pheno-text, etc.)
- Reading a really good text is basically like having an orgasm
- I should read some Nietzsche