Mythologies

About “Mythologies”

Mythologies is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes that contains fifty-three short essays written between 1954 and 1956. Most of these essays were first published in the French literary review Les Lettres nouvelles. In the book, Barthes explores how contemporary social value systems create modern myths. He also analyzes the semiology of myth creation, expanding on Ferdinand de Saussure's sign system by introducing a second level where signs become myths. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)