Roland Barthes died almost 30 years ago, on 26
March 1980, but his works continue to engage new
and old readers with remarkable consistency.
Books about him keep appearing: literary and
philosophical essays by Jean-Claude Milner
(2003), Jean-Pierre Richard (2006) and Eric Marty
(2006), a gossipy biography of his last years by
Hervé Algalarrondo (2006), a chapter about his
piano-playing by François Noudelmann (2008). And
now we have two new/old texts by Barthes himself,
transcriptions of his notes on the trip he made
to China in spring 1974 with his friends from the
Seuil publishing house and the magazine Tel Quel
(François Wahl, Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva,
Marcelin Pleynet), and of his so-called diary of
mourning, a set of jottings made in the immediate
aftermath of his mothers death in the autumn of 1977.
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