Criticism and Truth
1987
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Structured as a two-part essay. Part one opens with Barthes’s point by point dissection of Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard’s “old criticism.” Part two is devoted primarily to the author’s own theory of criticism.
Structured as a two-part essay, the book opens with Barthes’s point-by-point dissection of Picard’s “old criticism.” Barthes consturcts his own argument and shows, ultimately, that one can cross the abyss that separates criticism and reading, and, by implication, that which separates both from the work of the writer.
