They all have a brio and a punchy topicality typical of good journalism. These texts were written between 19 for the left-wing magazine Les Lettres nouvelles and very clearly belong to Barthes's `période "journalistique"' (Calvet: 1973 p.37). It contains fifty-four (only twenty-eight in the Annette Lavers's English translation) short journalistic articles on a variety of subjects. What is Mythologies About? Mythologies is a text which is not one but plural. Mythologies is one of Barthes's most popular works because in it we see the intellectual as humourist, satirist, master stylist and debunker of the myths that surround us all in our daily lives. I can't possible hope to do justice to the diversity of his various writings here - I can only point you in the direction of Culler (1983), Moriarty (1991) and Rylance (1994) where you will find good accounts of his career - so I will plunge straightaway into a discussion of Mythologies, which is one of his earliest and most widely-read works. When he died in 1981, he left a body of major work but, as many of his friends and his admirers claimed, with still more important work to come.
He is one of the most important intellectual figures to have emerged in postwar France and his writings continue to have an influence on critical debates today.
Roland Barthes: Mythologies (1957) Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Introduction Roland Barthes is a key figure in international intellectual life.
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