[主持人语]罗兰·巴尔特是20世纪50~70年代法国结构、后结构主义时代最重要的批评家之一,他的符号学理论为整个文化研究提供了基本的方法论原则,他的文本观和作者观开启了20世纪下半叶西方文论的认识论转向,他对巴尔扎克小说《萨拉辛》的解读被认为是后结构主义阅读实践最大胆的实验。但巴尔特并不是属于那种以理论阐述见长的现代理论家,相较于他同时代的知识英雄而言,他很少在哲学史、思想史或文化史的战场纵横捭阖,也很少在公共领域以学术权威或知识精英的身份激扬文字。他讨厌那种颐指气使、意识形态化的话语,也讨厌资产阶级主体的文字暴露癖。巴尔特的写作更像私人日记,一个又一个词条下记录的是他个 [Moderator language] Roland Barthes is one of the most important critics of the post-structuralist era of French structure and post-structuralism from the 1950s to the 1970s. His semiotics theory provides the basic methodological principles for the entire cultural study. His text The concept of view and author opened the epistemological shift of Western literary theory in the second half of the 20th century. His interpretation of Balzac’s novel Sarasin is considered to be the most daring experiment in the post-structuralist reading practice. But Barthes does not belong to the kind of modern theorist who knows the essence of theory. Compared with his contemporary intellectual heroes, Barthes seldom crosses the battlefields of philosophy, thought or culture history, The field stimulates writing as academic authority or intellectual elite. He hated the rhetoric and ideological discourse, and hated the literary geniuses of the bourgeoisie. Barthes writing more like a private diary, one after another entry is recorded him