Richard Joseph Howard, adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was poet laureate of New York from 1993 to 1995. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he was an emeritus professor. He lived in New York City.Wikipedia →
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Last Year at Marienbad
L’Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet
English · Grove Atlantic · 1962
The Marquise Went Out At Five
La Marquise sortit à cinq heures by Claude Mauriac
English · George Braziller · 1962
All Women Are Fatal
Toutes les femmes sont fatales by Claude Mauriac
English · George Braziller · 1964
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraison by Michel Foucault
English · Vintage · 1965
Critical Essays
Essais critiques by Roland Barthes
English · Northwestern University Press · 1972
Song for an Equinox
Chant pour un équinoxe by Saint-John Perse
English · Princeton University Press · 1977
New Critical Essays
Nouveaux essais critiques by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang / Northwestern University Press · 1980
Empire of Signs
L'Empire des signes by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 1983
The Rustle of Language
La mort de l'auteur by Roland Barthes
English · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 1986
Michelet
Michelet par lui-même by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 1987
The Semiotic Challenge
L'Aventure sémiologique by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 1988
The Rustle of Language
Le Bruissement de la langue : Essais critiques IV by Roland Barthes
English · University of California Press · 1989
The Fashion System
Système de la mode by Roland Barthes
English · University of California Press · 1990
The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
L'Obvie et l'Obtus : Essais critiques III by Roland Barthes
English · University of California Press · 1991
Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility
L’Âge d’homme by Michel Leiris
English · University of Chicago Press · 1992
Baudelaire: Poems
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
English · Everyman's Library · 1993
The Erasers
Les Gommes by Alain Robbe-Grillet
English · Grove Atlantic · 1994
The Eiffel Tower and other Mythologies
La Tour Eiffel by Roland Barthes
English · University of California Press · 1997
The Charterhouse of Parma
La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal
English · Modern Library · 2000
The Immoralist
L'Immoraliste by André Gide
English · Penguin · 2000
The Little Prince
Les Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
English · Harcourt · 2000
What is Sport?
Le Sport et les hommes by Roland Barthes
English · Yale University Press · 2007
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
La Chambre claire by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2010
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Fragments d'un discours amoureux by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2010
Mourning Diary
Journal de deuil by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2012
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2012
Language of Fashion
Œuvres complètes (en 3 tomes) by Roland Barthes
English · Bloomsbury · 2013
Mythologies
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2013
Collected Poems
Œuvres complètes by Saint-John Perse
English · Princeton University Press · 2014
On Racine
Sur Racine by Roland Barthes
English · Hill and Wang · 2017
The Flanders Road
La Route des Flandres by Claude Simon
English · NYRB · 2022