Roland Barthes on Books

This page displays 2 quotations attributed to Roland Barthes and filed under "books" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Roland Barthes, entry #126783: "Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source , the Text is without a source — the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text."

Attributed to Roland Barthes, entry #7720: "The Text is not a definitive object."