Les antimodernes : de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (lit.
'The Antimoderns: from Joseph de Maistre to Roland Barthes') is a 2005 book by the French literary scholar Antoine Compagnon.
Among the writers covered are Joseph de Maistre, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Péguy, Julien Gracq and Roland Barthes.
[1][2] Compagnon had been a student of Barthes in the 1970s and attributes both his teacher and himself with a kind of antimodern thought he defines as "being a lucid modern".
[3] The book received the 2006 Prix de la critique [fr] from the Académie Française.