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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
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This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved, You. The lover only has language, which is ultimately inadequate, to express the longing s/he feels for the beloved, who is but a figment, a fabrication of the I. Recommended by Tricia, Powells.com
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Publisher Comments:
"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language--primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner--is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest."--Jonathan Culler
About the Author
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780374521615
- Subtitle:
- Fragments
- Translator:
- Howard, Richard, IV
- Translator:
- Howard, Richard
- Translator:
- Howard, Richard, IV
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Hill & Wang
- Subject:
- Inspirational
- Subject:
- French language
- Subject:
- Rhetoric
- Subject:
- Love
- Subject:
- Single Author *
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Subject:
- Inspirational - General
- Subject:
- General Poetry
- Edition Description:
- Pbk
- Publication Date:
- June 1979
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 8.25x5.46x.61 in. .61 lbs.
