Here, Roland Barthes presents himself both as the great systematizer of the science of signs. He pursues the project of a general theory of signs, which is as formally developed as linguistics, but extends far beyond its field of knowledge. Secondly, he proves to be - and this developmental phase has hardly been recognized in Germany so far - the one who has developed a model for the semiological analysis of texts, as seen in the already classic text "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives.".