Roland Barthes ( Cherbough, Manche 1915- Paris, France 1980) was born in Cherbough, Manche. His father died in a naval battle in Barthes' infancy, his mother raise him alone because their parents, don't support her when they noticed that barthes was the result of a illegitimate relationship, because of that their grandparents refused to give her a economical help, when his mother could support his studies, he started again studies in classical letters, grammar, philology and Greek tragedy.
Most part of his life as a adult he suffer of tuberculosis cutting his doctoral studies for a lot of time, he also was homosexual and wrote a lot of texts and books, what was best sellers at that time in paris like A Lover's Discourse (1977), his work became so famous in European and american Cultures. He gave a lot of new theories about linguistics and semiology based on sausserre writtings giving new material for analyze and comprehend.
His final book before die tree years later was "La Chambre Claire (Camera Lucinda, 1980)", and the book is a bout the deep relationshid what he had with his mother .the book is a discussion of the communicating medium of photography.
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