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WRITERS > critic > Roland Barthes
The skyscraper establishes...
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
Source: Buffet Finishes off New York, in Arts (Paris, 1959; repr. in The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, tr. by Richard Howard, 1979).
-- Roland Barthes, (Nov 12 1915-1980), French critic; He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote Writing Degree Zero, 1953.