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The guest editors of this issue of CounterText, Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews, introduce the volume Roland Barthes,Fragments of a Lover's Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again, offering context and rationale for the project, situating the individual contributions, and anticipating their tonalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on views given by French philosopher Roland Barthes in Rome, Italy on May 20, 1977, as published in Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana review, in which Barthes has warned audience that listening to gramophone recordings of the voice of singer Charles Panzéra may be disappointing. It also mentions that L'empire des signes was published in 1970 and also mentions Barthes' writing on voice.

This article explores the concept of utopia in philosopher Roland Barthes' writing. According to Barthes, a fantasy does not tell everything and can give rise to an affirmative repetition. He reconfigures utopia as domestic and the social space he constructs will be idiorrhythmic. In "Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing," Diana Knight claims that utopia in Barthes refers to the details of everyday life and to a certain mode of corporeal and spatial being.