Why I Love Barthes

ISBN: 978-0-7456-5079-1

Paperback

80 pages

October 2011, Polity

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This is a unique testimony to one of the most important literary friendships of our time. Robbe-Grillet, the master of the nouveau roman, considered Barthes, France’s greatest postwar literary theorist and critic, as one of his very few true friends.
Throughout their 25-year-long friendship, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes showed their mutual intellectual esteem in private correspondence, published texts and conversations.
This book consists of an extended dialogue between Barthes and Robbe-Grillet. It also contains three short texts by Robbe-Grillet which reflect on Barthes, his work and their friendship.
This will appeal to all those interested in contemporary literary and cultural theory, followers of the work of Barthes, and students and scholars of contemporary literature.