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The Pleasure of the Text

The Pleasure of the Text
Roland BarthesOriginal title Le Plaisir du Texte (French, 1973)

The Pleasure of the Text is a 1973 book by Roland Barthes.

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“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).”

Roland Barthes book The Pleasure of the Text

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“Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words.”

Roland Barthes book The Pleasure of the Text

The Pleasure of the Text (1975)

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