Writing Degree Zero

Writing Degree Zero

Cover of the first edition
Author	Roland Barthes
Original title	Le degré zéro de l'écriture
Country	France
Language	French
Publication date	1953

Writing Degree Zero (French: Le degré zéro de l'écriture) is a book of literary criticism by Roland Barthes. First published in 1953, it was Barthes' first full-length book and was intended, as Barthes writes in the introduction, as "no more than an Introduction to what a History of Writing might be."^[1]