What do we know about the text? Recently, theory has been attempting to provide some answers. However, one question remains: What do we enjoy from the text? We must pose this question at least for one tactical reason: we must validate the enjoyment of the text against the indifference of science and the puritanism of ideological analysis; we must validate the enjoyment of the text against the humiliation of literature as mere entertainment.
How should we pose the question? The characteristic of enjoyment happens to be that it cannot be articulated. Thus, we have had to resort to a disordered array of excerpts: glossy facets, touches, dots – the safeguards of an invisible design: a simple staging of the question, a non-scientific shoot of textual analysis.
Roland Barthes: If I read and enjoy this phrase, this story, or this word, it is because they have been written in enjoyment. But what about the opposite? By writing in enjoyment, do I ensure – I, the author – the enjoyment of my reader? Not at all. I must seek that reader [to "fish" for them], without knowing where they are. And thus a space of pleasure is created. It is not the "face" of the other that is necessary for me; it is the space...
Roland Barthes
Manufacturer
- Author
- Roland Barthes
- Publisher
- Kedros
- Genre
- Linguistics Books
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- Original Title
- Le plaisir du texte
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789600452389
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