Roland Bart

Roland Bart

• Roland Bart is one of the most important intellectual figures to have emerged in postwar France and his writings continue to have an influence on critical debates today
• Mythologies is one of Barthes's most popular works because in it we see the intellectual as humourist, satirist, master sylist and debunker of the myths that surround us all in our daily lives.
• Barthes often claimed to be fascinated by the meanings of the things that surround us in our everyday lives
• interrogating the obvious, taking a closer look at that which gets taken for graned, making explicit what remains implicit
• A myth is a story about superhuman beings of an earlier age, of ancient Eypgt, Greece or Rome, but the word 'myth' can also mean a ficiticous, unproven or illusory thing