Our daily life is increasingly nourished by myths: the cat, the car, advertising, tourism... - which increasingly dominate us. Thus, when they become isolated from the current events that give rise to them, the ideological abuse that overshadows them immediately becomes evident.

Here, Roland Barthes provides us with a relevant account, ensuring - in his essay on "Myth Today," which concludes the book - to reconcile reality with people, description with explanation, the object and knowledge.

He writes: "We travel incessantly between the object and its demystification, unable to grasp its entirety: for if we penetrate the object, we will liberate it but also crush it. And if we leave it its weight, we respect it, but we mythologize it even more." [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]