About the book: 1989 / The collection of selected works by the famous French literary critic and semiologist R. Barthes (1915-1980) includes articles and essays reflecting different periods of his scientific activity. Research by R. Barthes, the head of the French “new criticism”, who developed, along with Kl. Lévi-Strauss, J. Lacan, M. Foucault and others structuralist methodology in the humanities are devoted to the problems of semiotics of culture and literature. Among the cultural studies of R. Barth, the reader will find “Mythologies”, “Death of the Author”, “The Pleasure of the Text”, “The War of Languages”, “On Racine”, etc., published for the first time in Russian translation..