Lettre autographe signée de Roland Barthes à René Wintzen

Roland Barthes sends this letter to warn his addressee that he will not send him the article he had announced on realism because what he wrote does not satisfy him: "I can not decide to give you this text on realism and I just ask you to give it up: it does not satisfy me enough " . He then proposes a theme of reflection for the journal of his correspondent which would be the study of the stakes of the debates between intellectuals: "its limits, its hopes, its failures, its action, what one expects etc."

1956 is the year of the writing of the Mythologies of Barthes which appear at Seuil in 1957.