Roland Barthes

(1915–1980) Mythographer France

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Roland Barthes was a mythographer from France, best known for Mythologies.

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He explored fields such as structuralism, anthropology, literary theory and post‑structuralism, and his ideas helped shape several schools of theory.

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and…

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One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized…

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