Incidents
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| Author | Roland Barthes |
|---|---|
| Original title | Incidents |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions du Seuil |
Publication date | 1987 |
Incidents is a 1987 collection of four essays by Roland Barthes. It was published posthumously by François Wahl, Barthes' literary executor.[1]
Summary
In the first essay, La Lumiere du Sud-Ouest, first published in Le Palace, a fashionable theatre-house in Paris. The fourth essay, Soirées de Paris, is a diary from August to September 1979, where Roland Barthes admits to using male escorts as all his relationships have been disappointing to him.
Literary significance and criticism
Although critics have questioned whether Roland Barthes intended to publish Incidents and Soirées de Paris, it has been argued that they have informed our reading of Barthes's oeuvre because of their explicit revelations of his homosexuality.
The essay Incidents has been compared to
Confessions.[9]
References
- ^ Jonathan Culler, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112
- ^ Roland Barthes, Incidents Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987, p. 20
- ^ Roland Barthes, Incidents, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987, p. 61
- ^ Roland Barthes, Incidents, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987, p. 69
- ^ Graham Allen, Roland Barthes, New York: Routledge, p. 149 [1]
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, p. 137 [2]
- ^ Leo Bersani, dustjacket, D.A. Miller, Bringing Out Roland Barthes, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
- ^ Jean-Michel Rabaté, Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, p. 239 [3]
- ^ Dennis Porter, Rousseau's Legacy: Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France, OUP USA, 1995, p. 194 [4]