BANDED SET OF TWO VOLUMES Incidents, by Roland Barthes In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soire#65533;s de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various stages of excitation, panic, and despair. Together with three other uncollected texts by Barthes, including an earlier journal he kept in Morocco, this remarkable document was published in France after its author's death. Bringing Out Roland Barthes, by D. A. Miller In this essay, D. A. Miller offers an album of moments in an imaginary "homosexual encounter" between himself and Roland Barthes. Miller begins by recalling a visit to Paris when he was a young student. He tells of frequenting the St. Germain Drugstore because a fellow student had seen the French writer there one evening. Although he may initially have hoped to see Barthes, Miller says, he eventually contented himself with doing Barthes, experiencing the emporium as he imagined Barthes might. Miller responds to various names, phrases, images, and themes in Barthes's work that provide him occasions for assessing, across differences of nation and generation, some characteristic strains of modern gay experience.