Lover's Discourse, A

Barthes’ Lover’s Discourse explores the grammatical anatomy of the amorous mind. Borrowing from Nietzsche, Goethe, Freud, Stendhal, Sade and others, Barthes penetrates the heart and the head of the lover, studies the emotion behind the lover’s diction, his zeal and feverous intimacy. Barthes’ aphorismic poetry traverses the subtleties of experience that quivers inside the romantic agony of love. Beautiful as a Keatsian chord, painful as Beethoven’s delirious love and subtle as Chopin’s sadness, Barthes’ poetry of love, although sometimes painstakingly intense, slips into the spasm that trembles inside the heart of the mad lover and the pathos of desire. Barthes combines the sad reality of love, its psycholinguistic enigmas and the perpetual effort of the lover to bridge the incomprehensible gap in his love, to make the reader (if the reader has been a lover) relate, resurrect and revive the fatal identity of the lover that resides within him.Maybe you won’t shed your long lodged tears, but you surely will feel the dither in your eyes – the haunting reality of love, the rupture of desire and a hollow ghost wandering the broken lands of amorous drips.One read is not enough.

Do not approach this as a 'book' to be read. Approach it rather like it is a heap of diary entries ripped up and strewn on the floor... And try piecing for yourself a discourse from these fragments. It is the reader who has to make the effort to weigh the words and assign significance to any fragment, and like love itself, it is all heartbreakingly complex and simple at the same time. A true gem. If you find the many literary allusions (lots of Werther in there) daunting, just do not care. Just read it.

It's a remakable rendition of an ineffable voice that rests within. Indeed, it is perhaps one of the best works of Barthes.Enjoy reading :)

Conceptually book us very good

Best price. Brand new book. Good quality of paper.

I appreciate Amazon's timely delivery but I hate books published by Random House India. The paper quality is of the worst kind. For people who cherish hard copies or paper backs like me, it is a waste of money. I am yet to read the book though. Bought it after reading Rosalyn D'Mello's A Handbook for my Lover which I loved.

Good book.Just wouldn't purchase anything from PBC Distributors. Had a terrible experience.

Loving this book.

It amazing that he is able to describe Love in its differing forms and feelings, dissecting ones various positions to the other in a lovers relationship. Philosophical and psychological stances we may take unknowingly thinking we are unique! On the contrary apparently.

Amazing, amazing book. It's dense, so it can take a while to push through, but it's such a beautiful book in its honesty and striking familiarity.

great

A very heady and intense book. It overpowers you and wraps you within the needy and vicelike read of the narrator's psyche.If you have loved and lost, or are falling in love, it is bittersweet and heartrending, and at once soothes your pain and inflames it with fresh, emergent reminders of the incoherence of emotion.It is a very self-indulgent read - and not in a bad way. Something to read on your own, in private, and to take meaningful pauses at every other sentence or so to wonder about your own life and memories...

I don't think you should attempt to read this without being well-versed in Barthian discourse and theory, and if you don't know Goethe's SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER, you must also read that beforehand. In fact your cultural capital must be pretty elevated before you venture upon A LOVER'S DISCOURSE, and it should be French too - Flaubert, Diderot, Chateaubriand... Then, and only then will you find this book supremely rewarding.