Mythologies (book)

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Mythologies

Cover of the first edition
Author	Roland Barthes
Original title	Mythologies
Translator	Annette Lavers
Country	France
Language	French
Subjects	Semiotics Structuralism
Publisher	Les Lettres nouvelles
Publication date	1957
Published in English	1972

Mythologies (French: Mythologies, lit. 'Mythologies') is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes. It is a collection of essays first published from 1954 to 1956 in the French literary review Les Lettres nouvelles, examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of sign analysis by adding a second level where signs are elevated to the level of myth.