A Barthes Reader

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by Roland Barthes,

Edited by Susan Sontag

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc

Due/Published November 1990, 495 pages, paper

ISBN 0374521441

'A Barthes Reader' gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing'.