Abstract
Roland Barthes, overwhelmed by the demands of articles, reviews and interviews, wrote almost exclusively to order. For him, constraint was a stimulus and a rhythm. In the context of the 1970s, when publication was the object of stereotypical mistrust, and Lacan could speak of " poubellication ", Barthes played with the system of commission/demand by cheating on this commission. The insolence of some of his theses contrasted with the very media for which he wrote, notably book clubs, which flourished in the middle classes after 1945 under the influence of the American model. Barthes contributed to the newsletters of these French-style book clubs, but his texts took issue with the expectations of the executive audience targeted by these clubs. Such was the case with his somewhat critical review of Camus's La Peste in the Bulletin du Club du livre français, in which we find echoes of the communist-Sartrian quarrel Camus was the object of.
