Writing Degree Zero
“You need to read this book, this strange book:Writing Degree Zero. You need to be defeated by it. And then you need (like Barthes) to begin a revolution.” —Adam Thirlwell, from his foreword“A sweeping account of French literature.” —Kenneth R. Weinstein,The Washington Times“Barthes’s myths about literature are extremely talented, even masterful . . . They acknowledge basic antinomies that even the most gifted minds addressing the same subject, such as Sartre, have glossed over.” —Susan Sontag