On Barthes' Biography
A Dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiphaine Samoyault (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Sunil Manghani (0000-0001-6406-7456, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 43-63 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276420910471 |
| OpenAlex | W3017703386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article presents an interview with Tiphaine Samoyault, author of Roland Barthes, Biographie (2015). There is always a difficulty in approaching the biography of Roland Barthes, who famously gave us the thesis of the 'death of the author'. Nonetheless, Samoyault's lengthy study can be considered the closest thing to an 'official' biography. Unlike other biographers, she was given access to and granted permission to cite from a wide range of private papers and materials. This inside view has not stopped her from detailing some of the more sensitive sides of Barthes' life and, importantly, she has been able to reassess aspects of his writings and relationship to other key thinkers of the time and the wider politics. As part of the interview, various extracts from the biography are woven into the dialogue, allowing those unfamiliar with it to gain more direct access to the book itself
Art · Biography · Epistemology · Key (lock · Literature · Permission · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Criticism · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |