''Criticism and Truth'' (french: Critique et vérité) is a 1966 work by

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...

, first translated into English in 1987. The book is a response to

Raymond Picard Raymond Picard (6 August 1917 – 5 September 1975) was a French author, prominent Sorbonne professor and Jean Racine scholar. Work Picard is noted for his scathing tract "Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture?" (" New Criticism or New Fraud?") ...

's criticism of Barthes' earlier 1963 work, ''Sur

Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditi ...

''. The feud between Barthes and Picard is credited with spreading Barthes' name outside France.

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Books by Roland Barthes 1966 non-fiction books {{philo-book-stub