A newspaper article, a photograph of a weekly, a film, a show, an exhibition, a social event, an actress, the new Citroen, a few phrases from Poujade ... offered Barthes the opportunity for a demystification of the contemporary mythologies. The texts of today's Myths were written between 1954 and 1956. New edition with the addition of nine unpublished essays, an introduction by Umberto Eco, the chronology of life and works and critical bibliography.