Roland Barthes, French philosopher, critic, linguist and semiotician, had a profound influence on twentieth-century literary theory. His best-known works include Mythologies (1957), S/Z (1970), Pleasu
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hund
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. He authored sever
