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Title: A Lover's Discourse : Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard ISBN: 0-374-52161-1 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: His best book ?
Comment: A personal favourite. Captures admirably the absurdity of it all. Contains gems like 'Even as he obsessively asks himself why he is not loved, the amorous subject lives in the belief that the loved object does love him but does not tell him so.' Also has what is probably the best paragraph ever written on jealousy: 'As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy and from being common.'
Rating: 5
Summary: PARIS REVIEWER HAS CAPTURED IT EXACTLY
Comment: This book is not an easily accessible checklist,rapidly readable, of the manifestations and anguishes of being 'in love.' The ordinary reader has to set him/herself to the Herculean task of understanding Barthes and picking each amazing fragment apart until recognition cuts through, like a dagger in the heart (if one reads while in the throes). The acute perception of the Parisian review is immediately recognizable to anyone caught on the sharp tines of love who has read "A Lover's Discourse," reached for it in moments of desperation, and found it a sort of lifeline. The book is "punishing," as was said, but solace will be afforded just by seeing the relentless torments and wretched states of being put into precise words - having it all dissected and explained, if not ameliorated. An enamoured person could find exquisite (if temporary) relief in that alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: makes you wonder about Love complicated issues
Comment: I LOVE this book - it made me reflect deeply about love - what is and what it involves. There are sad statements with it but there are also some parts that make you smile!
Love complicates things and suffering is a great part of it as most of us either know already or will eventually (hopefully!)
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Title: Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard ISBN: 0374521344 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Mythologies by Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers ISBN: 0374521506 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, Richard Miller ISBN: 0374521603 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes ISBN: 0374521360 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1978 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard ISBN: 0520087836 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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