Roland Barthes (French: Roland Barthes) is a French philosopher, literary critic and writer, semantic, and social theorist. Born in Cherbourg, France, November 12, 1915, and died in Paris on March 25, 1980, his work expanded to include many fields of thought. He is famous for his structural and semiotic studies and has left a wide impact on literary criticism. It has influenced the development of several schools such as structuralism, Marxism, post-structuralism and existentialism, in addition to its impact on the development of semantics. Roland Barthes' works are divided between structuralism and post-structuralism. He departed from the first to the second, like many of the philosophers of his time and school. He is also considered one of the great figures - along with Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and others - in the intellectual trend called postmodernism. Barthes was educated at the University of Paris and taught at several French university institutions, including the National Center for Scientific Research and the École Polytechnique des Hautes Etudes, and in 1976 he was chosen to occupy the first chair of literary semiotics at the Collège de France. Barth left many books and articles, some of which were published posthumously. Among the most famous are writing at zero degrees (1953); Legends (1957); Critical Essays (1964), as well as a study of the French writer Racine, and two autobiographical books: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (1975); The Lover's Speech (1977). In these books, Bart's multifaceted personality and interests become clear, both in his formal beginnings or in his orientation and rejection of structuralism, and his interest in studying signs in culture and how to interpret them, or what is known as semiotics. Many of these works have been translated into many languages, including Arabic.