Le Degré zéro de L'écriture ; Suivi de Nouveaux Essais Critiques

[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 1986. Second Edition. 12mo with green and white pictorial wraps; 187 p.; 18cm Very good (+); mild external wear and light age toning to pages; else clean, unmarked and tight. Paperback. ISBN: 2020006103

In French.Writing a sthe relationship the writer maintains with society, and literary language as it is transformed by its social destination.The relationship between literature and history, writer and society, illustrated by eight "new critical essays" on a variety of authors,from La Rochefoucauld to Chateaubriand, Flaubert, Proust, Verne, Loti...