Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes

Empire of Signs

Roland Barthes with Richard Howard (Translator)

128 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history literary challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.

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