Even at this early stage in his career, Barthes had developed a suggestive and open-ended method, providing a dozen short meditations on aspects of Michelet's extraordinary life and writing, followed by passages from the works themselves that reflect and enlarge these themes. The book's write-up on the back cover suggests the richness within: "In it he offers us a series of interrelated thematic aperçus on the writings of one of France's greatest nineteenth-century historians. This edition was the first translation into English. "Michelet" was claimed by Barthes to be his favorite book (of his own). Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980) was one of the Twentieth Century's leading intellectuals, combining literary criticism, philosophy, linguistics and semiotics into a formidable corpus of works.
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