A Barthes Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0809028158
- ISBN-13
- 9780809028153
- Category
- Arts
- Pages
- 495
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- New York : Hill and Wang
- Authors
- Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes
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