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Author: Philippe Sollers ,
Andrew Brown
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Polity Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781509513321
ISBN 10: 1509513329
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 03 February 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""These traces of an elusive life – a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history – add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer."" —Michael Wood, Princeton University ""This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest – anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters fro, Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers."" —Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK ""enjoyably grouchy homage"" The New York Review of Books"
These traces of an elusive life a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer. - Michael Wood, Princeton University This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters fro, Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers. - Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK
These traces of an elusive life - a selection of letters by Roland Barthes, affectionate memories of him, and above all an evocative sketch of the precise place he occupied in a complex and combative intellectual history - add up to a compelling portrait of a much missed writer. - Michael Wood, Princeton University This engaging book will give great pleasure to fans of both Sollers and Barthes. Sollers writes movingly about his long-term friendship with Barthes in a way that is full of human interest - anecdotal, autobiographical, literary, and political. The letters fro, Barthes to Sollers are delightful, especially the inclusion of copies of the handwritten letters. The increasing intimacy of their friendship, always expressed via the deeply respectful French vous form, will fascinate lovers of the epistolary form as well as scholars and students of Barthes and Sollers. - Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK
Author Information
Philippe Sollers is a French writer, critic and founder of the literary journal Tel Quel.
