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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.

Roland Barthes

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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Literary Critic
Literary Scholar
Literary Theorist
Mythographer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Roland Gérard Barthes
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