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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Scholar
Literary Theorist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Roland Gérard Barthes
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Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin I rub my language against another language.
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