Theater articles and reviews by a French post-structuralist philosopher.
Theatrical articles and reviews by the French post-structuralist philosopher Roland Barthes were written for the theater populaire magazine created by him in the 50s. There are about 80 of these texts, and in this book there are only 27 articles and the previously untranslated second part of Barth’s book on Racine. In the collection, Barthes appears as a critic of the French bourgeois psychological theater of the 50s with its «aesthetics of indulging the public» and compares it with the Greek cathartic theater and Brecht’s theater. The articles of one of the pillars of European philosophy of the XNUMXth century are still interesting today, as they concern not only the theory and history of the theater, but the very essence of theatrical art.
Ad Marginem, 176 p.