Roland Barthes (1915­–80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

"Given the diversity of these pieces in terms of history and content, it is crucial that the translator has made a good job of briefly contextualizing all the pieces and that the translations understand, especially in relation to the gendering that operates in the French language and to some of the more recondite references, that the renderings into English need, periodically, the helping-hand of an attuned and scholarly – that is experienced – editor and translator of Barthes."

• Pre-NovelsRecovering the Unburies Treasure (On Popular Poetry)The Man-Eater (On Zola’s Nana)Maupassant and the Physics of MisfortuneThe Cathedrals of Novels (On Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris)Round Table DiscussionsNew Pathways of Literary Criticism in FranceA Personal Statement on Robbe-GrilletThe Two Sociologies of the NovelAlain Girard: ‘The Diary’Parallel LivesPleasure in LanguageEdoardo SanguinetiPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume VIII)Preface (to Jacques Prévert, Fatras)Argument and Prospectus: A Letter to Philippe RogerPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume IX)Interview-Preface to Littérature occidentaleFrom Them to Us‘It All Comes Together’Masculine, Feminine, Neuter

Roland Barthes (1915­–80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

"Given the diversity of these pieces in terms of history and content, it is crucial that the translator has made a good job of briefly contextualizing all the pieces and that the translations understand, especially in relation to the gendering that operates in the French language and to some of the more recondite references, that the renderings into English need, periodically, the helping-hand of an attuned and scholarly – that is experienced – editor and translator of Barthes."

• Pre-NovelsRecovering the Unburies Treasure (On Popular Poetry)The Man-Eater (On Zola’s Nana)Maupassant and the Physics of MisfortuneThe Cathedrals of Novels (On Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris)Round Table DiscussionsNew Pathways of Literary Criticism in FranceA Personal Statement on Robbe-GrilletThe Two Sociologies of the NovelAlain Girard: ‘The Diary’Parallel LivesPleasure in LanguageEdoardo SanguinetiPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume VIII)Preface (to Jacques Prévert, Fatras)Argument and Prospectus: A Letter to Philippe RogerPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume IX)Interview-Preface to Littérature occidentaleFrom Them to Us‘It All Comes Together’Masculine, Feminine, Neuter

Roland Barthes (1915­–80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

"Given the diversity of these pieces in terms of history and content, it is crucial that the translator has made a good job of briefly contextualizing all the pieces and that the translations understand, especially in relation to the gendering that operates in the French language and to some of the more recondite references, that the renderings into English need, periodically, the helping-hand of an attuned and scholarly – that is experienced – editor and translator of Barthes."

• Pre-NovelsRecovering the Unburies Treasure (On Popular Poetry)The Man-Eater (On Zola’s Nana)Maupassant and the Physics of MisfortuneThe Cathedrals of Novels (On Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris)Round Table DiscussionsNew Pathways of Literary Criticism in FranceA Personal Statement on Robbe-GrilletThe Two Sociologies of the NovelAlain Girard: ‘The Diary’Parallel LivesPleasure in LanguageEdoardo SanguinetiPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume VIII)Preface (to Jacques Prévert, Fatras)Argument and Prospectus: A Letter to Philippe RogerPreface (to Ecyclopédie Bordas, Volume IX)Interview-Preface to Littérature occidentaleFrom Them to Us‘It All Comes Together’Masculine, Feminine, Neuter