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  • Camera Lucida

    Reflections on Photography

    Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as ... Read more

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  • Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

    Two Novels

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others.In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown ... Read more

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  • Steel Chair to the Head

    The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling

    The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Album

    Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Album

    Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Mourning Diary

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Intimate and deeply moving, Mourning Diary is a profound study of grief and solitude, drawn from the lost diary of influential philosopher Roland Barthes.The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Camera Lucida

    Reflections on Photography

    Narrated by James Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    Camera Lucida**, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.**Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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