Mythologies of Roland Barthes
Jean Guérin“Quoting the other month, with great esteem, some extracts from the Petite Mythologie (Les Lettres nouvelles), _I noticed that Mr. Roland Barthes, who informs us at length about what he considers mythical (Abbé Pierre, the dramatic avant-garde, the kings, Rimbaud, the army, the Church, the “style” and the rest), does not never thought of teaching us what he considers to be non-mythical: to be real. It is at most that he happens in this sense to evoke (a little solemnly) the “man”, the “human” or the “dialectics of love” (sic). Which man? Which human? What dialectic? They don't tell us anything about it. And I asked him, just by chance, if he understood these words in the Marxist sense.