New critical essays / Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Howard.

Translation of Nouveaux essais critiques, published in 1972 as the second part of a volume of which Le degré zéro de l'écriture was the first part.

La Rochefoucauld: "Reflections or Sentences and maxims."--The plates of the Encyclopedia.--Chauteaubriand: Life of Ranceé.--Proust and names.--Flaubert and the sentence.--Where to begin?--Fromentin; Dominique.--Pierre Loti: Aziyadé.