About this title: Divided into thematic sections, this discussion of love--its language, characteristics, and thought processes of those involved--is thought to be based on Barthes's own homosexual love. With various literary, artistic, and cultural references, the work became hugely popular in France within months of its 1977 publication. Original French title: FRAGMENTS D'UN DISCOURS AMOUREUX.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Date Published: 1979-08
ISBN-13:9780809013883ISBN:0809013886
Description: Good. Hill & Wang (1979. ) Petite, vintage softcover in olive wraps. Light edge wear, bright, unmarked pages. Age toning/spots to top text edge. Gift note to front page. read more
Edition: Fifth Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang, New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780809013883ISBN:0809013886
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased as well as the upper corner of the front of the wrapper, some writing in red ink on the ffep, overall a nice used copy! Black wrapper with white, blue, and yellow lettering. 234 informative and historical pages! "The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration: that the lover's discourse is today of an extreme solitude. This discourse is spoken, perhaps, by ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780374521615ISBN:0374521611
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting on 7 or 8 pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140125030ISBN:0140125035
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 30/08/1990
ISBN-13:9780140125030ISBN:0140125035
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"I enjoyed this book so much. I had so many moments of awe and astonishment when I was reading it...but I'm bad at reviewing. Check it out; it's amazing."
"Fight through the opaque first chapter and you'll be rewarded. Barthes' book is the definitive treatise on romantic love; required reading for the broken hearted."
"Lembro do primeiro contato que tive com o livro até hoje: foi numa aula da Aliança Francesa, e o capítulo escolhido era "a espera" (l'attente). E, adolescente que era à época (e insegura como só os adolescentes - e os muito apaixonados-conseguem ser) me vi no texto, era como se alguém tivesse entrado na minha cabeça e visto o que tava ali dentro. 20 anos depois, mesmo com a internet e o celular, o cerne desse texto continua real. Adoro e me identifico em cada um dos capítulos, dando aquela risadinha de canto da boca de quem foi pega com a boca na botija. Ah sim! Vi a peça com o Antonio Fagundes no Teatro Cultura Artística, claro!!!"
"This one is really messing with my head at the moment. Love, and theory... a strange conversation, but it also is surprisingly upbeat compared to Kristeva and the feminists.
From the introduction:
"The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration: that the lover's discourse is today of an extreme solitude. This discourse is spoken, perhaps, by thousands of subjects (who knows?), but warranted by no one; it is completely forsaken by the surrounding languages: ignored, disparaged, or derided by them, severed not only from authority but also from the mechanisims of authority (science, techniques, arts). Once a discourse is thus driven by its own momentum into the backwater of the "unreal," exiled from all gregarity, it has no recourse but to become the site, however exiguous of an affirmation. That affirmation is, in short the subject of the book which begins here..."
I think this is why I like this, because it is in the beginning, and in the end, an *affirmation* of the idea of love, the requirements of desire, and both the way this is expressed, can be expressed, in language , syntax and dialectic, and the ways in which such expressions are ultimately futile.
It manages to discuss love, attraction, and the hope of both in the context of post-modern theory, which is justly condemned, but is sometimes useful, without being dismissive of these things as merely cultural memetics, or artifacts of inter-sexual power struggle.
To be honest, most of the theoretical works I've read that try to provide a textual framework for the idea of Romantic Love, have been by women, specifically first, second and third wave feminists. This is very different."
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