Abstract
This essay explores the ways Roland Barthes approached the figure of a child in his writings, from “Mythologies” to late autobiographical works. Throughout his career childhood appears to be a constant motive and a topic of Barthes’s reflection. He frequently associated children’s play or language with the dimension of immediacy, a utopian possibility of unity with the world as such and freedom from the symbolic violence of ideology. Barthes also acknowledged a crucial existential importance of childhood experience, showing how it structures later experiences such as love and writing.
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