A Lover's Discourse: Fragments - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374521611 ISBN 13: 9780374521615

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1979

Synopsis

"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 this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0374521611
• ISBN 13: 9780374521615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224