A Lover's Discourse

Fragments d’un discours amoureux. [A Lover’s Discourse] by Roland Barthes

Fragments about love from the lover’s point of view. I include Barthes’s text here because he alludes to watching the lover sleep. However, his scrutiny of the sleeping body recalls the powerful associations between sleep and death. “It is evident that I am fetishizing a dead body.”

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(English) Barthes, Roland. A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. Trans. Richard Howard. Hill and Wang, 1979.

(French) Barthes, Roland. Fragments d’un discours amoureux. [Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse]. Paris: Seuil, 1977.