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Roland Barthes: The Last Days of a Literary Genius
On February 25, 1980, Roland Barthes had just attended a “big shot” party organized by the later French President François Mitterrand. After lunch, Bart walked back to the French Academy. When he was about to cross the zebra crossing, he was knocked to the ground by a speeding pickup truck. The ambulance personnel who arrived at the scene did not find any documents on the injured person, only the work card of the college. When the police went to the academy to inquire, someone notified Michel Foucault, and Foucault went to confirm that the injured was Bart. As Herve Algararondo wrote in the book “The Last Days of Roland Barthes”:…
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Do You Have to Read a Lot to Write Well? The Importance of Aesthetics and Sympathy in Literature Education
Do you have to read a lot to write well? The answer is obvious. of course not. This is an overly categorical question. So the more common expression is this: My child likes to read, why can’t writing go up? Asking questions like this points to a crack in this logic, that is to say, liking reading should help writing, but now writing is not good, there must be something wrong. Once you think about it, you will find the fragility of this problem. There are too many rhetorical questions that can follow. Does the child really enjoy reading? Or is it just a sign of academics, or even of…
