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I M A G E M U S I C T E X T

ROLAND BARTHES was bom in 1915 and died in 1980. At
the time of his death he was Professor at the College de
France. Among his books are Le Degre zero de I'ecriture
(1953), Mythologies (1957), Elements de semiologie (1964),
S/Z (1970), L'Empire des signes (1970), Sade, Fourier, Loyola
(1971), Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975), Fragments
d'un discours amoureux (1977), and La Chambre claire (1980).

STEPHEN HEATH is a Fellow ofJesus College and Reader in
Cultural Studies in the University of Cambridge. His books
include a study of Barthes, Vertige du deplacement (1974),
and, most recently, Gustave Flaubert: 'Madame Bovary'(\992).

R O L A N D BARTHES

Image Music Text

Essays selected and translated

by Stephen Heath

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Published by Fontana Press 1977

Copyright Roland Barthes 1977

English translation copyright Stephen Heath 1977

Illustrations I, XI, XII, XIII, XIV and XV

are from the collection of Vincent Pinel

ISBN 0 00 686135 0

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Contents

Translator's Note 7
Sources 13

The Photographic Message 15
Rhetoric of the Image 32
The Third Meaning 52

Research notes on some Eisenstein stills

Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein 69
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives 79
The Struggle with the Angel 125

Textual analysis of Genesis 32: 22-32

The Death of the Author 142

Musica Practica 149
From Work to Text 155
Change the Object Itself 165

Mythology today

Lesson in Writing 170

The Grain of the Voice 179

Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers 190

Index 217

Translator's Note

Leaving aside the problems involved in any translation,
special difficulties arise when (as here) there is (as yet?)
no real overlap in theoretical context between the two
languages in question. With regard to the semiological
reference in these essays, I have tried wherever possible to
conform to the terminological solutions adopted by the
English translators of Barthes's Elements of Semiology. A
certain amount of bibliographical - and occasionally

explanatory - material has been added in footnotes which
are identified by being placed in square brackets.

The following terms pose particular difficulties:

Langue|parole - The reference here is to the distinction

made by the Swiss linguist Saussure. Where parole is the
realm of the individual moments of language use, of parti
cular 'utterances' or 'messages', whether spoken or written,

langue is the system or code ('le code de la langue') which
allows the realization of the individual messages. As the
language-system, object of linguistics, langue is thus also
to be differentiated from langage, the heterogeneous totality

with which the linguist is initially faced and which may be
studied from a variety of points of view, partaking as it
does of the physical, the physiological, the mental, the
individual and the social. It is precisely by delimiting its

specific object and fixing as its task the description of that

object (that is, of the langue, the system of the language)
that Saussure founds linguistics as a science. (Chomsky's
distinction between competence/performance - 'the speaker
hearer's knowledge of his language' and 'the actual use of

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language in concrete situations' - resembles that between

langue|parole but, so to speak, brings within the scope of
langue elements - the recursive processes underlying
sentence formation - regarded by Saussure as belonging

to parole). The problem in translation is that in English

'language' has to serve for both langue and langage. Langue

can often be specified by translation as 'a' or 'the language'
or again as 'language-system' (in opposition to the 'language
use' of parole), but I have included the French term in
brackets in cases where the idea of the analytic construction
of a language-system is being given crucial stress (see notably

the 'Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives').

Enonce|enonciation - Both these terms are often translated

in English as 'utterance', but whereas the first signifies what

is uttered (the statement, the proposition), the second
signifies the act of uttering (the act of speech, writing or
whatever by which the statement is stated, the proposition
proposed). This distinction rejoins and displaces that
between langue/parole: every enonce is a piece of parole;
consideration of e nonciation involves not only the social
and psychological (i.e. non-linguistic) context of enonces,
but also features of langue itself, of the ways in which it
structures the possibilities of e nonciation (symbol-indexes

such as personal pronouns, tenses, anaphores are the most
obvious of these linguistic features of e nonciation). The

distinction - the displacement - has particular importance
in any - semiological, psychoanalytical, textual - attention

to the passage, the divisions, of the subject in language,
in the symbolic, to the slide seized in the disjunction of
the sujet de I'enonce and the sujet de l'enonciation. In the

utterance 'I am lying', for example, it is evident that the
subject of the proposition is not one with the subject of
the enunciation of the proposition - the 'I' cannot lie on

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