Mythologies (1953) · Tastebuds

"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

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“The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess.”

About Roland Barthes · 1915–1980

Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 - 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

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