![]() ![]() ![]() In S/Z (a textual analysis of Balzac's Sarrazine ), for example, Barthes deploys a straightforwardly etymological notion of the text by identifying five codes that, in his account of the story, are "woven together" in its narration. It does, however, tend to obscure the permutations undergone by Barthes's text. ![]() This reputation is by no means undeserved. Like Kristeva he was keen to extrapolate the literary implications of the semiological text, and for this reason-not to mention the largely literary cast of the American reception of textuality-his studies S/Z and The Pleasure of the Text still define for many in the Anglophone world what the second text is. Although he often deferred to the theoretical rigor of others, he was unquestionably the text's most articulate and tenacious cultural ambassador. As Tel Quel's "spiritual advisor," Roland Barthes (1915–1980) had enormous influence on the fate of the text. ![]()
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