Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. He opposed the conventions of the bourgeois establishment and attacked prevailing attitudes to language and literature, arguing that ideas and standards accepted as 'neutral' and 'natural' were in fact nothing of the kind. His books include Mythologies and Camera Lucida.

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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. He opposed the conventions of the bourgeois establishment and attacked prevailing attitudes to language and literature, arguing that ideas and standards accepted as 'neutral' and 'natural' were in fact nothing of the kind. His books include Mythologies and Camera Lucida.

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