Roland Barthes was the most brilliant and influential of the generation of literary critics who came to prominence in the 19605. His first book, Writing Degree Zero (1953), was a polemical essay on the history of French literary style. A controversy with a traditionalist professor, Raymond Picardi in the mid-1960s made Barthes famous, or notorious, as the leading iconoclast of 'fa nouvelle critique'
Roland Barthes was the most brilliant and influential of the generation of literary critics who came to prominence in the 19605. His first book, Writing Degree Zero (1953), was a polemical essay on the history of French literary style. A controversy with a traditionalist professor, Raymond Picardi in the mid-1960s made Barthes famous, or notorious, as the leading iconoclast of 'fa nouvelle critique'
Roland Barthes was the most brilliant and influential of the generation of literary critics who came to prominence in the 19605. His first book, Writing Degree Zero (1953), was a polemical essay on the history of French literary style. A controversy with a traditionalist professor, Raymond Picardi in the mid-1960s made Barthes famous, or notorious, as the leading iconoclast of 'fa nouvelle critique'