Roland Barthes Quotes

Roland Barthes — French Critic born on November 12, 1915, died on March 25, 1980

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism... (wikipedia)

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes Quotes

Roland Barthes Quotes

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