El anarquista de salón. Una lectura sobre la política de Roland Barthes

Abstract

In each Roland Barthes’ essay we found the confluence of two movements: on the one hand, the affirmation of the critical potential of the Text, Writing and Literature; and on the other hand, a certain retraction, distrust or limit to think politics. Unlike other Tel Quel theoreticians, such as Kristeva, Ricardou or Sollers, in which the revolt, the utopia and the revolution topics appears with emphatic insistence, in Barthes these are denied or relegated from the critical discourse. We are therefore interested in tracing the nuances of the barthesian position, interrogating his particular "anarchism" (as he defines himself in The Inaugural Lesson), in deepening the way in which aesthetics and politics are linked in his theory, and analyzing an ethos in which Proust and Brecht seem to coexist in the always ambiguous and indeterminate space of the text.