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Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- Roland Barthes
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1915 to 1980; Wikidata Q179109, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179109 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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