New Critical Essays

Throughout his extraordinary career, Roland Barthes was always a step ahead of critical trends -- semiology, structuralism, post-structuralism -- a feat he often accomplished by focusing on writers whose work was forgotten or undervalued. New Critical Essays shows Barthes at his best, as he reconsiders the work of La Rochefoucauld, Chateaubriand, Proust, Flaubert, Fromentin, and Loti.