The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text—in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.

From science to literature --
To write : an intransitive verb? --
Reflections on a manual --
Writing reading --
On reading --
Freedom to write --
The death of the author --
From work to text --
Mythology today --
Research : the young --
The rustle of language --
Rhetorical analysis --
Style and its image --
Pax Culturalis --
The war of languages --
The division of languages --
The discourse of history --
The reality effect --
Writing the event --
Revelation --
A magnificent gift --
Why I love Benveniste --
Kristeva's Semeiotike --
The return of the poetician --
To learn and to teach --
Cayrol and erasure --
Bloy --
Michelet, today --
Michelet's modernity --
Brecht and discourse: a contribution to the study of discursivity --
F.B. --
The Baroque side --
What becomes of the signifier --
Outcomes of the text --
Reading Brillat-Savarin --
An idea of research --
Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure ... --
Preface to Renaud Camus's Tricks --
One always fails in speaking of what one loves --
Writers, intellectuals, teachers --
To the seminar --
The indictment periodically lodged ... --
Learning the movie theater --
The image --
Deliberation