Mythologies by Roland Barthes

Mythologies

Roland Barthes with John Lee (Narrator), Richard Howard (Translator), Annette Lavers (Translator)

9 hours, 12 minutes first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconic images of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they are fabricated. Once isolated from the event...

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Moods

informative 89%
challenging 85%
reflective 71%
funny 14%
inspiring 14%
adventurous 7%
dark 3%
relaxing 3%

Pace

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medium 39%
fast 7%

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