A LOVERS DISCOURSE: FRAGMENTS
by Roland Barthes
Condition: Good. Mild edge wear and light creasing to cover consistent with age and handling;moderate toning to pages, firmly bound. Name inscription.
About the Book:
In this groundbreaking meditation on desire, language, and longing, Roland Barthes dissects the speech of love into a series of lucid fragments. Each fragment captures the lovers solitude, anxiety, and hope the endless turning of language around the beloved and the self. Drawing on literature, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Barthes reimagines love not as an event but as an interior discourse, an ever-renewing text of passion and self-questioning.
A work of literary criticism that reads as poetry, A Lovers Discourse remains a central text in modern reflections on intimacy and human expression.
About the Author:
Roland Barthes (19151980), French literary theorist and philosopher, was one of the most influential voices in 20th-century thought. His writings on semiotics, authorship, and the interpretation of texts helped shape structuralism, post-structuralism, and cultural theory.
