{"product_id":"the-pleasure-of-the-text","title":"The Pleasure of the Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in French in 1973, Roland Barthes’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pleasure of the Text\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an intimate, playful exploration of the pleasures and provocations of reading. Rather than offering a conventional theory of literature, Barthes moves through fragments, reflections and provocations, considering how a text can unsettle the reader, disturb familiar meanings and awaken unexpected sensations. Drawing on literature, psychoanalysis and philosophy, he distinguishes between the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplaisir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of a text that confirms and enriches the self, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003ejouissance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a more disruptive pleasure that unsettles identity and resists easy understanding. The result is a book less concerned with telling us what literature means than with asking what it does to us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten at a pivotal moment in Barthes’s intellectual development, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pleasure of the Text\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e turns literary criticism towards the body, desire and the experience of reading itself. Its brief, aphoristic passages invite readers to linger, disagree and discover their own pleasures in the act of interpretation. Both a companion to his earlier structuralist work and a step towards the more personal writing of his later years, it remains an influential meditation on language, authorship and freedom. Intellectually mischievous yet sensuous in its attention to words, this is Barthes at his most invitingly elusive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas I do.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Roland Barthes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pleasure of the Text\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Pleasure of the Text\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The originality of his rapid-fire answers is dizzying, exhausting.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64010645307722,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/the-pleasure-of-the-text","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}