![]() ![]() ![]() His third book, published in 1957, provides a key to that influence, though early translations included around half or less of the 53 essays here (one of them, “Astrology,” receiving its first English translation for American publication). The book has two parts. ![]() His impact extends well beyond those who actually read his work (as the pivotal role his ideas hold in the latest Jeffrey Eugenides novel, The Marriage Plot, makes plain). As this new translation and expansion of a seminal work by the French semiotician and philosopher demonstrates, Barthes ( Mourning Diary, 2010, etc.) remains ahead of his time, and our time, more than 30 years after his death. ![]()
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