Writing degree zero.
By: Pref. by Susan Sontag. Translated from the French by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Style, Literary; French literature -- History and criticism
Description: Defines the nature of writing, as well as the historical, political and personal forces responsbile for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to the present. Ranging far beyond the confines of most literary criticism, this is an incisive analysis of language and speech, tone and style.
Notes: Translation of Le degré zéro de l'écriture.