A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780809066896 (0809066890)
Publish date: September 1st 1978
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Pages no: 234
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: ...