The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Author	Roland Barthes
Original title	La Tour Eiffel
Translator	Richard Howard
Language	French
Subject	Semiotics, structuralism, cultural studies
Publisher	University of California Press
Publication date	1979
Publication place	France
Pages	152
ISBN	978-0-520-20982-4

The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies is a collection of essays by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes.^[1] It is a companion volume to his earlier book, Mythologies, and follows the same format of a series of short essays which explore a range of cultural phenomena, from the Tour de France to laundry detergents.