Album Unpublished Correspondence and Texts Roland Barthes Translated by Jody Gladding

Album Unpublished Correspondence and Texts Roland Barthes Translated by Jody Gladding treats for the first time, published in english, texts and correspondence of the beloved and estimated french philosopher, literary theorist, semiotician.
Born in Cherbourg, the existence of Barthes has been characterized by study, thinking, books from the early years of his existence as you will read.

He was a serious and devoted, voracious letter-writer. I loved the letters from the sanatorium where he spent a lot of time; he was after all in good mood, as you will see.
Young Barthes continued to reading in the while; from Anatole France, to Valerie, from Proust, adding of this last one "Proust is at heart a prose poet....H analyzes all the sensations and memories that this act awakens in him..." to Racine and many more.

Speaking of that outside world left alone for a long while, he wrote to
one of his main friends, "Every point of comparison must be suppressed between the past - house, mother, friends, Paris streets, the living world - where everything is possible - and the present ..."

Writing to a friend he was in love with: "I really think that what divides us has no meaning...It's not the desire of comfort that leads me to air my feelings, but...the illusion that one will see through my weakness -which is irresponsible of me-to what I feel to be there of strength and grandeur."

Poetic man, and wonderful writer, his sensations didn't know any sort of reticence. He was an honest man in his writings and feelings reporting without doubt and great clarity what he felt, his impressions, whatever the topic could be. Books, love, friendship, health.

After the last second world war, we see that Barthes starts his career as a writer, at the research of a publishing house, and writer of the first  critical works. 
The book follows the successes and life of Barthes 'till the end and these correspondences includes letters to Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Levi-Strauss, Marthe Robert and others.

You will also find, if you are interested as a teacher or as a student other material in the transcripts from his seminars.
I loved The Postage Stamp. When there were still letters, stamps meant a lot for the sender and they were socially a way for introducing us in other cultures as well.

On Seven Sentences the reader will be immersed in the...sentence's world.

This one is a book that can be explored. You can start with certain correspondence, you can pass to various other sections happily and without to feel any kind of disconnection and first of all, always finding what you are searching for.

The book can be read by everyone without any kind of difficulty.

I love the cover.

Highly recommended.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori