Roland Matthes Autobiography

Author: Roland Barthes (France)
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Roland Barthes' Autobiography is a richly contented book. It includes three parts: Roland Barthes' Autobiography, Writer Sollers, and Encounters. Originally, these were three independent books. Autobiography is a non-traditional self-reflective text written by the author for the "Eternal Writers" series. It is organized for readers in a fragmented writing style and alphabetical order of fragment titles, presenting a "strange book" with dislocated time, chaotic events, and illogical inner coherence. The author attempts to explain speech activities through fragments and explores the deep meanings of linguistic symbols through the arbitrary arrangement of language. Autobiography includes the author's discussions on various aspects of his personal life, aesthetic ideals, philosophical views, etc. Writer Sollers collects Roland Barthes' discussions on Sollers' several works, affirming the author's innovative attempts and providing an in-depth interpretation of Sollers' writing from the perspectives of narratology, linguistics, and semiotics. Encounters gathers three aspects of content written in different periods, presenting a postmodern collage style through fragmented and scattered narratives of countless "encounters." The latter half of Encounters reflects Roland Barthes' delicate emotions as a person. In it, the author discloses his homosexuality and expresses his loneliness in his later years.