A Postscript
If I were a writer and dead, how I would like my life to be reduced by some friendly, not over-serious biographer, to a few details, a few likings, a few inflections to ' biographines ', let's say.
Roland Barthes , who died earlier this year, was one of the most influential and iconoclastic writers in post-war France.
John Sturrock, Deputy Editor of The Times Literary Supplement, examines the four stages of Barthes' evolution from Marxist into moralist.