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The preparation of the novel : lecture courses and seminars at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 / Roland Barthes ; translated by Kate Briggs ; text established, annotated, and introduced by Nathalie Léger.

Barthes, Roland. (Author). Briggs, Kate. (Added Author). Léger, Nathalie. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780231136143 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0231136145 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780231136150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0231136153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxx, 476 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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Machine generated contents note: THE PREPARATION OF THE NOVEL -- 1. From Life to the Work -- Notes for a Lecture Course at the College de France (1978-1979) -- Session of December 2, 1978 -- Introduction -- The "Middle" of Life -- To Change -- Writing Fantasy -- Session of December 9, 1978 -- The Novel -- Session of December 16, 1978 -- Two Clarifications -- 1. As If -- 2. Ethics/Technique -- Session of January 6, 1979 -- The Haiku -- "My" Haiku -- The Haiku in its Materiality -- Translation -- Typography. Aeration -- The Fascicule -- Session of January 13, 1979 -- The Desire for Haiku -- Enchantment of Haiku -- The Desire for Haiku -- Nonclassification -- Nonappropriation -- The Weather -- Season -- Session of January 20, 1979 -- The Weather -- Individuation of the Times of Day -- Individuation, the Nuance -- 1. The Individual Against the System -- 2. From the Individual to Individuation -- Session of January 27, 1979.

3. The Nuance -- 4. The Void, Life -- The Instant -- 1. The Instant and Memory -- 2. Movement and Immobility -- 3. Contingency and Circumstance -- Session of February 3, 1979 -- Pathos -- 1. Perception -- 1. The Sound is Off -- 2. "One Art in the Form of Another" -- 3. Synesthesia -- 2. Affect, Emotion -- Emotion -- Session of February 10, 1979 -- Animals. Digression -- Kireji -- 3. Egotism of Haiku -- 4. Discretion -- Session of February 17, 1979 -- Effect of the Real or Rather of Reality (Lacan) -- Photography -- The Division of the Real -- Co-presence -- Session of February 24, 1979 -- Setting a Bell Ringing -- The Clarity of Haiku -- The Limits of Haiku -- 1. The Concetto -- 2. Narration -- Session of March 3, 1979 -- Conclusion -- Passages -- 1. Daily Practice of Notation -- 2. The Levels of Notation -- Division -- Noteworthy -- Session of March 10, 1979 -- 3. Life in the Form of a Sentence -- 4. Quiddity, Truth.

1. Joyce: Quiddity -- 2. Proust: Truth -- THE METAPHOR OF THE LABYRINTH -- Interdisciplinary Investigations -- Seminar (1978-1979) -- Introductory Session of December 2, 1978 -- Origin -- The Word, the Thing (Collating a Basic Knowledge) -- Etymology -- The Thing -- Fields of Presence of the Metaphor -- Symbolism -- Metaphor -- Concluding Session of March 10, 1979 -- The Labyrinth: A Few Closing Remarks -- THE PREPARATION OF THE NOVEL -- 2. The Work as Will -- Notes for a Lecture Course at the College de France (1979-1980) -- Session of December 1, 1979 -- Preamble -- Outline -- Epigraph -- Plan -- Parabase -- Bibliography of the Most Frequently Quoted Authors (Authors and Critical Works) -- 1. The Desire to Write -- Origin and Departure -- Jubilation -- The Hope of Writing -- Hope -- Volupia/Pothos -- Imitation -- Inspiration -- 1. A Narcissistic Distortion -- 2. A Semiotics.

3. A Copy of a Copy -- 4. An Unconscious Filation -- 5. A Simulation -- The Desire to Write -- Mania -- Those Who Don't Write -- Anxious Desire -- Writing as a Tendency -- Tendency -- Session of December 8, 1979 -- Indistinction/Poikilos -- Intransitive -- To Have Finished -- Digression -- To Not Write? -- 1. Scuppering -- 2. "Idleness" -- Knowledge -- DIY {Bricolage} -- Nothing -- Wou-wei -- Session of December 15, 1979 -- "I'm Worth More Than What I Write" -- Ego-Ideal ≠ Ideal Ego -- Writing/Ideal Ego Differential -- 1. Writing -- 2. The (Writer's) Ideal Ego -- An Infinite Mechanism -- Parabase, Method, Narrative -- Method -- Simulation -- 1. Example and Metaphor -- 2. Mise en abyme and Maquette -- 3. Situation/Position -- Narrative -- The Three Trials -- Session of January 5, 1980 -- 2. First Trial: Choice, Doubt -- Content? -- Philosophy of the Work -- The Themes of the Work -- The Work as Fantasized Form -- Fantasy/The "Volume" -- A Typology of the Book -- The Ordinary Book -- The Anti-Book -- Two Fantasized Forms: The Book/The Album.

1. The Book -- a. Mallarme: The Total Book -- b. The Sum-Total Book -- c. The Pure Book -- 2. The Album -- Circumstance -- Rhapsodic -- Diary/Structure/Method -- Speech/Writing -- Session of January 12, 1980 -- The Stakes -- Dialectic of the Book and the Album -- Indecision and Necessity -- Indecisions -- No Necessity? -- After-the-Fact -- Finishability -- Need -- Chance -- "Proof" -- Self-evaluation: Talent -- Talent -- Misrecognition -- Truth-Novel -- Difficult/Impossible -- Conclusion -- The Blocking Fantasy -- "Blank in the Course" -- 3. Second Trial: Patience -- A. A Methodical Life -- The Work the World -- Office -- Society, Worldly -- Concupiscences -- Love -- Real Life -- Egoism -- Solution? -- Session of January 19, 1980 -- Life as Work -- Return of the Author -- Return to Biography -- Gide -- Proust -- Life Writing -- Vita Nova -- Complete Breaks -- Bustle/Peace -- Bustle -- Smooth Time -- Administration -- Writings -- Correspondence -- Accounts -- Luxury -- Defenses -- To Refuse -- Immobility -- A Novel to Write -- Originality.

"Workshop" -- Illness -- Casuistry of Egoism -- To Sacralize Yourself -- Session of January 26, 1980 -- Casuistry of Egoism -- Regimes -- Home -- Night-Time -- Session of February 2, 1980 -- Solitude -- Schedules -- The Grand Rhythm -- To Conclude -- B. The Praxis of Writing -- Preliminary Question: Reading/Writing -- Starting Up -- 1. Crises -- 2. "It Takes" -- Session of February 9, 1980 -- From Starting Up to Labor -- Planning -- Brakings -- 1. The Slow Hand -- History of Speed -- Types of "Hand" -- 2. The Overall Time of the Work -- Parametrics -- Interrupting the Work -- 3. The Breakdown -- Marinade -- Difficulty -- Solutions -- Conclusion: Boredom -- Acedy -- Schopenhauer -- Art -- Fall Outside of the Essence -- Session of February 16, 1980 -- 4. Third Trial: Separation -- Archaism and Desire -- Attachment to the Past -- Untimeliness -- Living Desire -- What is Going to Die -- Signs of Desuetude -- 1. Teaching.

2. Leadership -- 3. "Work" -- 4. Rhetoric -- 5. Heroism -- The Exiled Writer -- 1. Which History? -- 2. Which Society? -- 3. Which Language? -- Session of February 23, 1980 -- To Overcome -- Tragic -- To End the Course -- 1. Simplicity -- 2. Filiation -- 3. Desire -- A Last (but Not Final) Word -- PROUST AND PHOTOGRAPHY -- Examination of a Little-Known Photographic Archive -- Seminar -- Editor's Foreword -- 1. Seminar? -- 2. Photographic Archive? -- 3. Little Known?=Unknown -- 4. Proust and Photography -- 5. "Examination" -- 1. The "World" of Proust (=of Marcel) -- 2. The "Keys".