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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This text by Roland Barthes prefaces the first series of Dialogues produced by Roger Pillaudin for France-Culture and published by the Presses Universitaires de Grenoble. We talk a tape recording is made diligent secretaries listen to our words to refine transcribe and punctual them producing a first draft that we can tidy up afresh before it goes on to pub- lication the book eternity. Haven’t we just gone through the “toilette of the dead”? We have embalmed our speech like a mummy to preserve it forever. Because we really must last a bit longer than our voices; we must through the comedy of writing inscribe ourselves somewhere. This inscription what does it cost us? What do we lose? What do we win? (SP)