A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Synopsis

‘may be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again. An ecstatic celebration of love and language’ washington postthe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what barthes calls an 'image repertoire'.