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Lover's Discourse
Roland Barthes
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Description for Lover's Discourse
Paperback. The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives - beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
‘May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language’ Washington Post
The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'.
Reviving the notion of the amorous subject beyond psychological or clinical enterprises, Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099437420
SKU
V9780099437420
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About Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and 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.
Reviews for Lover's Discourse
Love, here, is a state of the imagination, with the lover desperate to interpret the dire ambiguities inseparable from his role. This is a speculative book, and a melancholy one, an exploration of the idiom of anxiety. Barthes's love is a passion in the old, suffering sense of the word
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May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy ... Read more
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May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy ... Read more