Writing itself : on Roland Barthes / Susan Sontag --
On Gide and his journal --
The world of wrestling --
from Writing degree zero --
The lady of the camellias --
Buffet finishes off New York --
Tacitus and the funerary baroque --
The photographic message --
The imagination of the sign --
The plates of the Encyclopedia --
Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives --
Flaubert and the sentence --
Writers, intellectuals, teachers --
from The pleasure of the text --
from A lover's discourse --
Inaugural lecture, College de France --