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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 440.81
EAN: 9780374521615
ISBN: 0374521611
Label: Hill and Wang
Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: June 01, 1979
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Studio: Hill and Wang
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Editorial Review:
"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
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Rating:  - Dissecting the broken heart...
What is love? Perhaps the question has never been answered more succinctly, more completely, and more devastatingly than in *A Lover's Discourse.* In this unique and sly little book, Roland Barthes deconstructs `love,' or, perhaps more accurately, subjects it to a thorough semiotic examination that reveals the psycholinguistic archetypes that comprise all great affairs of the heart--the very definition of which virtually dictates that they all end unhappily.
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Rating:  - I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't READ this
Here me out: maybe it is b/c of the book I just finished (the 3rd policeman) that made me edgy for a little more cohesiveness - a novel if you will. This book is all in the title: FRAGMENTS. Its a uniquely presented book that discusses verbs and actions that we find in 'love'. From what I did manage to read, it was an eye opener, but I just couldn't get past the way it was presented. He took several famous authors and took from their works and his life experience and manifested these chapters ... Read More
Rating: - makes you wonder about Love complicated issues
I LOVE this book - it made me reflect deeply about love - what is and what it involves. There are sad statements with it but there are also some parts that make you smile!
Love complicates things and suffering is a great part of it as most of us either know already or will eventually (hopefully!)
Rating: - Words Misunderstood
Barthes's fascination with Structuralism is abundant in this examination of the terms that could perhaps summarize the incomplete thoughts of an anxious lover. He asserts that the thoughts and words of a lover remain suspended-- they show themselves as thin representations of the truth that lurks in the the lover. Sentences trail off, remain unfulfilled, and are swallowed by frustration. Reading this, it is easy to say, "No kidding! I'm so glad that someone could put this into words!" ... Read More
Rating: - His best book ?
A personal favourite. Captures admirably the absurdity of it all. Contains gems like `Even as he obsessively asks himself why he is not loved, the amorous subject lives in the belief that the loved object does love him but does not tell him so.' Also has what is probably the best paragraph ever written on jealousy: `As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject ... Read More
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