- Eiffel Tower (Paris, France), Essays (single author)
In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine - and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.
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- Author
- Roland Barthes
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- Hill & Wang, University of California Press, Hill and Wang
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780520209824
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Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 - 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
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