IncidentsFrench philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post structuralist movement in twentieth century literary thought, and some of his best known works, like S Z, speak directly to the essential and individual relationship between a reader and a literary text. In Incidents, readers have the privilege of going inside the life and thought of Barthes, through a book that is a testament to Barthess belief that

maintained by Tarkovsky from 1970 until his death

and from independent films to landmark design objects

as if pointing towards Europe in a mixture of rage

But in 1951 the two writers fell out spectacularly over their literary and political views

he was obsessing about the entrepreneurial spirit behind coin-operated payphones in Mumbai and the reasons behind clocks on public buildings in the city

and referred to poetically by the Greeks as ‘the unspeakable girl’

there have been in recent times a new addition in the form of flex banners

At once factual and speculative

45 color Illustrations

with the bulk of the material coming from the period between 1980 and the present

from one to the other

they revisit those ruined mines