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A Poetic Meditation On Professional Sport By One Of The Major Figures Of Twentiethcentury French Literature And Thought, Published In An Elegant Paperback Gift Editiona Littleknown Gem, The Text Of Barthess What Is Sport? Was Never Reprinted In The Seuil Editions Of His Complete Worksneither The Threevolume Version Nor The Later Fivevolume Edition. It Is Published Here In A Graceful And Faithful English Translation By Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Howard. Originally Commissioned By The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation As The Text For A Documentary Film Directed By Hubert Aquin, What Is Sport? Was Written Three Years After The Publication Of Barthess Mythologies (1957) And Bears Considerable Resemblance To That Work. Some Of Barthess Best Writing Seems To Have Been Inspired By Popular Culture.Once Again Blurring The Distinction Between High And Low, The Great French Literary Theorist Muses Philosophically On The Question: What Is Sport? In Investigating The Phenomenon Of Sport, Barthes Considers Five National Sports: Bullfighting (Spain), Car Racing (America), Cycling (France), Hockey (Canada), And Soccer (England). For Barthes, Sport Is Spectacle And Serves The Primary Social Function That Theater Once Did In Antiquity, Collecting A City Or Nation Within A Shared Experience. The Real Pleasure Of This Book, However, Lies Less In Its Generalities Than In Its Fleeting, Strangely Haunting Moments Of Insight. It Makes An Appropriate Gift For Any Sport Enthusiast As Well As Those Interested In The Writing Of Roland Barthes.
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