Mythologies by Roland Barthes - Book Report/Review Example

Every single description contains a hint of unmistakable fascination which quite effectively makes the readers see things in a new light. It is stressed that words and objects have extraordinary power to convey messages. Every essay in the book is about a common everyday object but which is made interesting by the way the author with acute intelligence digs into it. The book picks up random myths from the modern culture and claims that a mythologist is a person who not only acknowledges a cultural myth, but is able to separate its components, evaluate how each of them works, and finally reveal its distortions and harms.

However, a good deal of time has to be invested in every sentence and every paragraph of the book in order to understand the rather difficult and abstract style of the author. Though the book is comparatively hard to go through regarding the high level of language and proficiency, still it is worth reading owing to the exceptionally insightful content it contains.