`Andrew Brown has made an extensive study of Barthes' written discourse ... Andrew Brown's book is useful, precisely because it underlines the often romantic, utopian nature of Barthes' writing. Furthermore, its methodology, despite the post-structuralist logic, indicates a way of approaching Barthes' attachment to l'histoire profonde, and to its plasticite, which he admired in Brecht's work.'Modern and Contemporary France 1993

• The drifter - losing ground, narratives of emergence; frames and names; the scribbler; excursus - "Contra Vocem"; the trauma.

`Andrew Brown has made an extensive study of Barthes' written discourse ... Andrew Brown's book is useful, precisely because it underlines the often romantic, utopian nature of Barthes' writing. Furthermore, its methodology, despite the post-structuralist logic, indicates a way of approaching Barthes' attachment to l'histoire profonde, and to its plasticite, which he admired in Brecht's work.'Modern and Contemporary France 1993

• The drifter - losing ground, narratives of emergence; frames and names; the scribbler; excursus - "Contra Vocem"; the trauma.

`Andrew Brown has made an extensive study of Barthes' written discourse ... Andrew Brown's book is useful, precisely because it underlines the often romantic, utopian nature of Barthes' writing. Furthermore, its methodology, despite the post-structuralist logic, indicates a way of approaching Barthes' attachment to l'histoire profonde, and to its plasticite, which he admired in Brecht's work.'Modern and Contemporary France 1993

• The drifter - losing ground, narratives of emergence; frames and names; the scribbler; excursus - "Contra Vocem"; the trauma.