The unpublished texts of a writer, of an intellectual, are always very revealing, and their publications pleasantly welcomed. In this sense, having unveiled, in this 21st century, unpublished texts of Roland Barthes, such as journal entries, are of great value, not only because Barthes had decreed the need for the “death of the author” and not just to know details and personal reflections, but because through them the intimate writing of Roland Barthes is revealed, as well as his hesitations and his projects of future writing. In this article, we show the intrinsic value that these texts –written on notebooks or files– possess, but also, and after observing the drafts of their future project Vita Nova, we let them intuit the use of them in ...