num_pages: 155
description: In this appealing and luminous collection of short essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine—and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.
language: English
title: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
titlecomplete: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Mythology, Philosophy, Urbanism, Theory, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, France
ratings_count: 216
publisher: University of California Press