Incluye referencias bibliográficas. Second printing, 1983 CONTENIDO: On gide and his journal. The world of wrestiling. Form writing degree Zero. The world as object. Baudelaire’s theater. The face of garbo. Striptease. The Lady of the Camellias. Myth today. The last happy writer. Buffet finishes of New York. Tacitus and the funerary Baroque. From on racine. Authors ad writers. The photographic message. The imagination of the sign. The plates of the encycolopedia. The Eiffel Tower. Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives. Flaubert and the sentence. Lesson in writing. The third meaning. Fourier. Writers, intellectuals, teachers. From th pleasure of the text. From Roland Barthes. From a lover´s discourse. Inaugural lectura, collége de France deliberation.