Roland Barthes (France, 1915-1980 ) writer and one of the most important twentieth century French semioticians . At the University of Paris he earned degrees in classical literature , grammar and philosophy . In 1934 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis admitted that keeps various clinics for over ten years. Was reader at the Universities of Alexandria and Budapest and later worked as a researcher in lexicology and sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris . Roland Barthes is the author of over twenty studies structuralist semiotics , critical analysis of the literary work but also books about photography, music , art and film . His works include : Camera Lucida . Note on photography, also appeared in Polity Press , editorial has also published collections of his writings as The obvious and obtuse . Images , gestures , voices, Whisper of the language, the semiotic adventure, The Eiffel Tower. Texts on the image and Variations on reading. Recently published editions Paidós the sport and men belonging to study the documentation for , unreleased documentary film in Spanish ( collection The bow of Ulysses ) . Barthes died in 1980 a victim of a car accident near the Sorbonne in Paris.