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Literature and Theology 2004 18(2):211-222; doi:10.1093/litthe/18.2.211
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Buddha Barthes: What Barthes saw in Photography (That he didn't in Literature)

Jay Prosser

School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT j.d.prosser{at}leeds.ac.uk

Roland Barthes's final works become increasingly interested in Buddhism. Just before his death, and after his mother's, he writes an essay on photography, Camera Lucida, which corresponds what he sees in photography with what he saw in Buddhism. This is the real, or what Barthes called the punctum, or what Zen calls sunyata (quoted by Barthes). In this void is death, and it brings Barthes to the zero degree outside of literature and the verbal sign that he had always sought.


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