<div dir="ltr"><div>Actually, this interview is not very well known in France as well (if not totally overlooked), hidden in Barthes' Complete Works edition. This is unfortunate, I'd say, because it sheds an interesting light on Barthes' premise as "western civilization sickness" (what he seems to share with Noel Burch). See page 308 here, "I understood right away that the Japanese wouldn't recognize themselves in it', etc. : such a sentence is actually crucial, among others here... And can explain the misunderstanding between French critics and Japanese filmmakers around that time, for Barthes was such a huge influence for, say, Cahiers du Cinéma back then.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mathieu Capel</div><div>Paris</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-09 3:06 GMT+01:00 Cook, Ryan M. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.cook@emory.edu" target="_blank">ryan.cook@emory.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>This is a fascinating interview, and sheds some light on Hasumi's use of terms from Barthes in other contexts. It's also interesting to see Barthes' reluctance to analyze Flaubert (though the comments he makes here are very interesting). I noticed the
last time I was in Kinokuniya that Hasumi's career-long study of Flaubert, extending back to his doctoral dissertation, has finally come out in an enormous volume.</p>
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<p>Somewhere in my files I have a special issue, maybe of Umi, on Barthes with which Hasumi was heavily involved, if I recall. I wonder if that issue is where this interview was published. The translation doesn't give the full citation.</p>
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<div>New translation (from the French, it seems) of a fascinating interview of Barthes by Hasumi shortly after the publication of Empire of Signs. November 2015 issue of Cultural Politics.</div>
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<div><a href="http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/11/3/301.full.pdf" target="_blank">http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/11/3/301.full.pdf</a></div>
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