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

I have a love/hate relationship with this book (borrowed from Maki). A-Lovers-Discourse-Fragments-by-Roland-Barthes. A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. Everything about these pieces to me is just beautiful. Which, since reading A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, has made me think of Treppenwitz. Literally, 'the wisdom of the stairs'. Her Infinity Nets and infinity (mirror) rooms floor me and I find myself thinking about them while writing. One day, I shall recall the scene, I shall lose myself in the past. Trans R Howard, New York, Hill & Wang, 1979: 100). A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Yesterday, I came across an old copy of the French philosopher Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse. In linking The Immoralist with a fragment from a Lover's Discourse, I chose the piece entitled "The Uncertainty of Signs." When a person questions the existence of "true love" with another individual, they might look for signs. The idea to bring together the different cuts of the original operatic discourse to form a new collection was inspired by a book that I was reading almost by chance at that time: Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Even the slight sense of loneliness and nostalgia, the sense of yearning each phrase portrays. A Lover's Discourse – Fragments. Screen capture from Los abrazos rotos [Broken Embraces], 2009, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. 'Roland Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is A Lover's Discourse, a writing out of the discourse of love. Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. I am the one who waits.” – Roland Barthes. [ii] Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Hill and Wong, New York, 1978, p.