Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive
This essay deals with the theme of autobiography (or, better still, of personal biography) through the comparison of two 'autobiographies', those of Roland Barthes and Jurij M. Lotman. The books reveal the different intellectual attitudes of these two twentieth century masters of semiotic...
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| description | This essay deals with the theme of autobiography (or, better still, of personal biography) through the comparison of two 'autobiographies', those of Roland Barthes and Jurij M. Lotman. The books reveal the different intellectual attitudes of these two twentieth century masters of semiotics. Barthes, after having given much attention to the theme of biography in relation to others (with the essays on Michelet, and later on Sade, Fourier and Loyola), made of his own biography a crucial moment in his own intellectual development, a project which began with the text, Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975). Unlike Barthes, Lotman dictated his own memoir, Ne-memuary [Non-Memoir] (Moscow 1994), only under external pressure towards the end of his life, and clearly without the intention of creating a "work", but rather as a means of leaving an account of his experiences as a man, and as an internationally recognized scholar - in other words, a man 'with a biography'. The comparison of Barthes and Lotman invites reflection on the value of writing and of testimony, as well as on the fact that "they both reflected from different perspectives on the deep semiotic dimension of life, considered the origin and at the same time result in a fundamental circuit with text". |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec35048e616e4bb7b8db80f5f55186852022-12-21T19:29:20ZengAssociazione OculaOcula1724-78102016-01-0117210.12977/ocula53Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettiveIsabella Pezzini0Isabella Pezzini Dipartimento di Comunicazione e ricerca sociale (CORIS), Università La Sapienza di Roma (IT)This essay deals with the theme of autobiography (or, better still, of personal biography) through the comparison of two 'autobiographies', those of Roland Barthes and Jurij M. Lotman. The books reveal the different intellectual attitudes of these two twentieth century masters of semiotics. Barthes, after having given much attention to the theme of biography in relation to others (with the essays on Michelet, and later on Sade, Fourier and Loyola), made of his own biography a crucial moment in his own intellectual development, a project which began with the text, Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975). Unlike Barthes, Lotman dictated his own memoir, Ne-memuary [Non-Memoir] (Moscow 1994), only under external pressure towards the end of his life, and clearly without the intention of creating a "work", but rather as a means of leaving an account of his experiences as a man, and as an internationally recognized scholar - in other words, a man 'with a biography'. The comparison of Barthes and Lotman invites reflection on the value of writing and of testimony, as well as on the fact that "they both reflected from different perspectives on the deep semiotic dimension of life, considered the origin and at the same time result in a fundamental circuit with text".https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-17-PEZZINI-Biografia-e-autobiografia-in-barthes-e-lotmanbartheslotmanbiografiaautobiografiaforme di vita |
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| title | Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive |
| title_full | Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive |
| title_fullStr | Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive |
| title_short | Biografia e autobiografia in Barthes (1915-1980) e Lotman (1922-1993): un confronto di prospettive |
| title_sort | biografia e autobiografia in barthes 1915 1980 e lotman 1922 1993 un confronto di prospettive |
| topic | barthes lotman biografia autobiografia forme di vita |
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