A Lover's Discourse
'A Lover's Discourse' is a detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire. Its mini-topics range throughout the entire gamut of love and beyond: jealousy, waiting, letters, being in love with love itself, the meaning of 'i love you', quarrels, the threat of suicide, love at first sight, and more. All...
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'A Lover's Discourse' is a detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire. Its mini-topics range throughout the entire gamut of love and beyond: jealousy, waiting, letters, being in love with love itself, the meaning of 'i love you', quarrels, the threat of suicide, love at first sight, and more. All readers will find something they recognize in Barthes' recreation of the lover's fevered consciousness: the book is an ecstatic celebration of love and language.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099437420 (0099437422)
ASIN: 99437422
Publish date: July 4th 2002
Publisher: Vintage Classics
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: ...
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