A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe’s Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A...
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A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe’s Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover’s Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374532314 (0374532311)
ASIN: 374532311
Publish date: October 12th 2010
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Love,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Romance,
Philosophy,
France,
Theory
"Love" seems to me something which is impossible to define, to grasp. Centuries of authors, of philosophers, have tried to do so in vain. There is always something left to be said. As in death, love is a topic of infinite discourse. As Tolstoy echoes in the mouth of Anna Karenina's titular heroine: ...
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