This paper concerns Roland Barthes' strategies of writing, its relations to historical modalities of textuality (such as the "classical" and the avant garde ones), and its implications towards the act of reading. Our aim is to demonstrate that Barthes' writing always moves itself in the subtle interval between the avant garde text (which hinders the fluency of reading, imposing its own appropriate velocity) and the "classical" text (which is committed to a confortable practice of reading).
Barthes; classic; avant garde; writing strategies; reading modalities