The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes

The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes with Richard Miller

67 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of ...

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Moods

challenging 87%
reflective 87%
informative 50%
inspiring 37%
relaxing 12%

Pace

slow 85%
medium 14%

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