How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) - Roland Barthes
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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Roland Barthes
Synopsis "How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)"
In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. A distinct project that sets the tone for his subsequent lectures, How to Live Together is a key introduction to Barthes's pedagogical methods and critical worldview.In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of "idiorrhythmy," a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five texts that represent different living spaces and their associated ways of life: Emile Zola's Pot-Bouille, set in a Parisian apartment building; Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which takes place in a sanatorium; Andre Gide's La Sequestree de Poitiers, based on the true story of a woman confined to her bedroom; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, about a castaway on a remote island; and Pallidius's Lausiac History, detailing the ascetic lives of the desert fathers.As with his previous lecture books, How to Live Together exemplifies Barthes's singular approach to teaching, in which he invites his audience to investigate with him--or for him--and wholly incorporates his listeners into his discoveries. Rich with playful observations and suggestive prose, How to Live Together orients English-speaking readers to the full power of Barthes's intellectual adventures.
(1915-1980) Fue una de las figuras intelectuales más importantes que emergieron en Francia en la posguerra, y sus escritos son, todavía hoy, objeto de estudio y discusión. Este crítico y ensayista francés, desarrolló gran parte de su trabajo en un ambiguo espacio entre la lingüística y la literatura. Entre sus libros, obtuvieron gran reconocimiento sus estudios semiológicos sobre la imagen. En 1977 fue designado titular de la cátedra de Semiología Literaria del Collège de France, que fue creada especialmente para él por consejo de Michel Foucault. Barthes se definió a sí mismo como “un sujeto incierto”: demasiado literario para los lingüistas, demasiado lingüista para los críticos literarios. Quizá sea este rasgo el que lo ha convertido en uno de los pensadores y teóricos más influyentes en su campo.