Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing.(Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Wagstaff, Peter | Copyright information

Diana Knight. Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing.

Oxford: Clarendon P, 1997. xi + 287 pp. $78.00.

The jacket of Diana Knight's book has a reproduction of a nineteenth-century photograph of the Alhambra in Granada. This is the photograph reproduced by Roland Barthes in the first part of Camera Lucida, his essay on photography which is also an autobiographical meditation on love, loss and death. He is moved by the image because "that's where I should lik...

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