A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Roland Barthes
Publisher: Hill and Wang

Even the slight sense of loneliness and nostalgia, the sense of yearning each phrase portrays. I'm thinking, in particular, of the two (obvious) fragmented works that are driving my interest in the fragment form: Shaviro's Connected and Barthes' A Lover's Discourse. Product Details: Publisher: Hill and Wang (1986) ASIN: B001DKR41E Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches. In A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes compiles a (non-exhaustive) list of "fragments" pertaining to the discourse oflovers. A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. Barthes calls them "figures" -- gestures of the lover at work. Lorsqu'on dit "Je t'aime", ça veut dire : je t'aime donc tu es obligé de m'aimer. Yet, within this infantile embrace, the genital unfailingly appears … the logic of desire begins to function, the will-to-possess returns, the adult is superimposed upon the child. Dire "Je t'aime" n'est jamais gratuit. (Fragments d'un discours amoureux) Roland Barthes. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits." — Roland Barthes (A Lover's Discourse: Fragments). Train tracks: scarlet_blu: January 31st, 2008. Everything about these pieces to me is just beautiful. From "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments", by Roland Barthes. (A Lover's Discourse: Fragments). In honor of the Hallmark holiday, I've decided to recommend one of my favorite reads about love: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes, translated from French into English by Richard Howard. Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Employing her own version of Sortes Virgilianae, the artist picked words out from Roland Barthes's book “A Lover's Discourse: Fragments” and constructed her own signage and direction to lead her from thought to thought. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. (Fragments of a Lover's Discourse) Roland Barthes.