A review by maruijuana
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes

3.0

this book needs the sort of solid concentration tailor made for Barthes' writing style—poetically verbose, long sentences, too many brackets, pace. reading this book is analogous to listening for three hours to someone with a French accent speaking too fast. here and there the concentration is hard to maintain and the writing becomes dense and the train of ideas becomes severely hard to follow — it could have be written in French. gladly though this is not really an essential read for readers that read for pleasure.