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Empire of Signs

by Roland Barthes

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L'empire des Signs is a fruit of Barthes' 1966 travel to Japan. Observing Far East from an unusual perspective, totally unorientalistic Barthes explores signifiers and signifieds of a culture in a meditative way. A good book to start studying semiology, and understanding Asia. (

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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.

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