Lettre autographe signée de Roland Barthes à René Wintzen

Roland Barthes sends this letter to his correspondent to warn him that he has decided to give "three pages of his intervention" to Hollerer (founder of the German magazine Akzente ), and that following his refusal of an article addressed to the addressee he afraid that it will upset him. He explains in the letter saying that these pages are not really developed but also that it "dreads the German audience less".

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