Roland Barthes – the author of such enduringly influential works as
Mythologies
and
Camera Lucida
- was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published.
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes
is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes'
Mourbaning Diary
, the notes for his projected
Vita Nova
and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.