[Diane Reynolds]

Hi Ben,

I would be interested in this reading. First, Barthes has been recrossing my path here and there during the past few years–first, in a reprint of marvelous early essays from the 1950s when he was writing for a socialist publication, and most recently from reading Katie Briggs’s This Little Art about translating Barthes’s last lectures. In both cases, bookends to his career, he radiates a deep humanity that I find compelling. Also, I read Sarrasine about two years ago with the idea of then reading S/Z but, as if often the case, got swept up in other things, so this would be a great chance to get back to a text I’ve missed.

Diane Reynolds

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