Robert Taylor, Boston Globe
"Odd, perplexing, brilliant, weird, ruminative, daring, outrageous yet masterful, Roland Barthes's Michelet . . . anticipates the methods of the author in later studies. . . . Michelet in the end is re-created in the same terms that he himself applied to history."

 John Clive, The New Republic
"No review can possibly do justice to the subtlety and economy of Barthes's presentation."

Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books
"It is not only the mingling of codes in Michelet that Barthes claims as his own; it is also the opulence of Michelet's sensual language . . . that excess in expression visible when the author's pen loses itself in the athletic joy of writing." --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Book Description
Published in France in 1954, Roland Barthes's Michelet inspired a revival of interest in the great 19th century French historian. Neither a biography nor a critique, Michelet is Barthes's effort to give the reader a sense of the whole man. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Back Cover copy
"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic." (Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature) --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.