Philosopher

Roland Barthes

French semiologist and critic — the death of the author

Collège de France · France · d. 12 November 1915 (Cherbourg) — 26 March 1980 (Paris)

A laundry van struck him on a Paris street on 25 February 1980, and he died a month later, on 26 March, of pulmonary complications. He had held the chair of literary semiology at the Collège de France since 1977. 'The Death of the Author' appeared first in English, in Aspen in 1967, and only in 1968 in French, in Manteia.