When Barthes published On Racine in 1963, some critics weren't exactly fans of his style. But one critic, a professor at the Sorbonne, wasn't content with just poohing-poohing Barthes's work at coc...

Okay, so it might seem difficult to be against an entire class of people—and especially against the biggest socio-economic class (the middle or bourgeois). But Barthes was suspicious of bourgeois...