# Roland Barthes | ![img \|150](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Roland_Barthes_Vertical.jpg) | Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Roland Barthes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes) | [[The Death of the Author]]