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Roland Barthes
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12 November 1915 - 25 March 1980
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Roland Barthes (12 November 1915, Cherbourg – 25 March 1980, Paris) was a French poststructural philosopher and semiotic.
Roland Barth was born on November 12, 1915 in Cherbourg, Normandy. His father, Louis Barth, a naval officer, was killed in battle in the North Sea when Roland was less than a year old. His mother Henrietta, along with his aunt and grandmother, moved to Bayonne, a city in southwestern France. There, the future philosopher first came into contact with the world of culture, learning
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Roland Barthes (12 November 1915, Cherbourg – 25 March 1980, Paris) was a French poststructural philosopher and semiotic.
Roland Barth was born on November 12, 1915 in Cherbourg, Normandy. His father, Louis Barth, a naval officer, was killed in battle in the North Sea when Roland was less than a year old. His mother Henrietta, along with his aunt and grandmother, moved to Bayonne, a city in southwestern France. There, the future philosopher first came into contact with the world of culture, learning to play the piano under the guidance of a musically gifted aunt.
Roland proved to be a promising student, studying at the Sorbonne from 1935 to 1939. But his academic career was spoiled by a serious illness - pulmonary tuberculosis - he had to spend a lot of time in sanatoriums. The disease prevented him from participating in the war. In his youth, two main features of Bart’s character took shape: left-wing political views and a love of theater. In 1948-1950 he taught in Bucharest, where he was influenced by the linguosemiotic ideas of A.-J. Greimas.
Usually, researchers divide Bart’s work into three periods: prestructuralist (50s), structuralist (60s) and poststructuralist (70s).
In the 1950s he acted as a journalist sympathetic to the “new novel”, the “theater of the absurd” and the scenic ideas of B. Brecht. In 1953 he published the book Zero Degree of Writing.