The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
AuthorRoland Barthes
Original titleLa Tour Eiffel
TranslatorRichard Howard
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
SubjectSemiotics, structuralism, cultural studies
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date
1979
Pages152
ISBN978-0-520-20982-4

The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies is a collection of essays by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes. It is a companion volume to his earlier book, Mythologies, and follows the same format of a series of short essays which explore a range of cultural phenomena, from the Tour de France to laundry detergents.