Abstract

Although translated, in Croatia Barthes’s status is reduced to the one of sign, mythèmeand pharmakon. Biti’s and Solar’s readings, framed by the beginnings and more recent ones, do show that the mystification of the text produces a certain fetishism of writing, a narcissism of the reader combined with a perversion that simply makes one happy. Croatian Barthes, decidedly structuralist, shows that the spatiality of the mythical language is just as crucial as its temporality.