In:
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, PERSEE Program, Vol. 94, No. 3 ( 2016), p. 635-646
Abstract:
Roland Barthes : Fragments of a Conceptual Diary. The article analyzes the relationship between Roland Barthes’ diary fragments (Soirées de Paris and Journal de deuil), and conceptual art. As a first step, we examine their commonalities and differences by emphasizing the author’s shared interest for the question of language and form. Barthes’ writing strategy goes beyond the egotism specific to the genre of the diary. By questioning its very nature, Barthes transforms the diary into a self-reflexive text which tests the validity of his own form and can bear the name of a conceptual diary. Secondly, we analyze each one of the two texts in order to show how the boundaries of the genre are tested and how they bind to other Barthesian writings of the same period. Vita Nova contains explicit references to the diary fragments and bespeaks the extension of a project thought outside of genre limitation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0035-0818
DOI:
10.3406/rbph.2016.8890
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
2016
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2601544-4
SSG:
25
SSG:
7,30
SSG:
7,23
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