New Edition of Roland Barthes' Complete Works and Lecture Notes Published
A new five-volume semi-pocket edition of Roland Barthes' complete works has been released, replacing the earlier three-volume luxury edition. The edition includes previously unpublished lecture notes from his courses at the Collège de France (1976–1978), presented as written notes rather than transcriptions, with accompanying audio recordings sold separately. The courses covered include 'Comment vivre ensemble' and 'Le Neutre', with a third course, 'La Préparation du roman', forthcoming. The edition is structured around five periods of Barthes' intellectual development: Marx/Sartre/Brecht, Saussure, Sollers/Kristeva/Derrida/Lacan, Nietzsche, and a final period. The interview with editor Éric Marty discusses the editorial choices, the unique format of the lecture notes, and the significance of Barthes' later works such as 'Fragments d'un discours amoureux' and 'La Chambre claire'. Marty emphasizes Barthes' critical stance toward dogmatic discourses and his utopian relationship to literature.
Key facts
- New five-volume semi-pocket edition of Roland Barthes' complete works replaces the 1994 three-volume edition.
- Includes lecture notes from courses at the Collège de France (1976–1978) as written notes, not transcriptions.
- Accompanying audio recordings of the lectures are sold separately.
- Courses published: 'Comment vivre ensemble' and 'Le Neutre'; 'La Préparation du roman' is forthcoming.
- Edition structured around five periods: Marx/Sartre/Brecht, Saussure, Sollers/Kristeva/Derrida/Lacan, Nietzsche, and a final period.
- Editor Éric Marty conducted the interview and wrote the prefaces.
- Barthes' lecture notes use abbreviations, arrows, and dashes; editors added explanatory notes from oral recordings.
- The edition aims to be accessible to a student readership with a lower price point and improved index.
- Marty discusses Barthes' relationship to Sartre, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and theater.
- Barthes' later works like 'Fragments d'un discours amoureux' and 'La Chambre claire' are highlighted as masterpieces.
Entities
Artists
- Roland Barthes
- Éric Marty
- Jacques Henric
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Bertolt Brecht
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Philippe Sollers
- Julia Kristeva
- Jacques Derrida
- Jacques Lacan
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Marcel Proust
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Piet Mondrian
- Pierre Boulez
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Louis Althusser
- Michel Foucault
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Jean Vilar
- Michel Butor
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Jean Cayrol
- Albert Camus
- François-René de Chateaubriand
- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Jean de La Bruyère
- Honoré de Balzac
- Jean Racine
- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
- Charles Fourier
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Gilles Deleuze
Institutions
- Collège de France
- École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- École Normale Supérieure
- Éditions de Minuit
- Éditions du Seuil
- Théâtre Populaire
- Festival d'Avignon
- artpress
Locations
- France
- Paris
Sources
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