Badmington’s key focal points are the Journal de deuil, the fragments of the Vita nova, the Collège de France lecture notes (principally Le Neutre and La Préparation du roman), and the Carnets du voyage en Chine. Its aim is deceptively straightforward: to offer an account of Barthes through a focus on the substantial body of work published after his death, thus to ask ‘how the established body reshaped repeatedly by the posthumous body’ and to consider the ‘shifting legacy’ mobilized by the release of previously inaccessible material (p. Badmington’s book enthusiastically follows this arc. Rather than offering us ‘the whole Barthes’, however, the posthumous material has served to scatter Barthes further, to intensify an effect of dissemination already at work in the publications of his lifetime. In some ways this was just a peak moment in the unending accumulation of posthumous publications and critical studies since Barthes’s death in 1980. As Neil Badmington observes in his Introduction, 2015, the centenary of Barthes’s birth, saw an exhausting plethora of events and publications devoted to the author of Mythologies, including a new journal edited by Badmington himself: Barthes Studies.
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