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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (1915-1980), the French literary theorist, philosopher, and semiotician, was the author of Writing Degree Zero (1953), Mythologies (1957), S/Z (1970), and The Pleasure of the Text (1973), among other works. He taught at the Collège de France, where Severo Sarduy first attended his lectures after arriving in Paris. They subsequently became close friends, and both contributed regularly to the influential journal Tel Quel.