Roland Barthes

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Roland Barthes Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and critic. He taught in France, Romania and Egypt while he wrote Writing Degree Zero. In 1952, he started at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique to study sociology and lexicology. After writing numerous well-known essays, Barthes began traveling to lecture. In 1967, he wrote The Death of the Author, and in 1977, he was elected to the chair of Semilogie Litteraire at the College de France.