- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 Aug 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140125035
- ISBN-13: 978-0140125030
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 322,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An insight into the discourse a lover addresses to himself and to the imagined figure of his beloved. The text is structured as a dictionary and written in a series of aphorisms. Barthes is also the author of "On Racine", "Writing Degree Zero" and "Mythologies".
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Heartache anatomised systematically (alphabetically, like an encyclopaedia). An ideal present for someone getting on your nerves moping around about love - but only for the intellectually inclined. Imagine Morrisey back in the age of the Smiths if he'd written a book. You're seeing the blues in a book, but a French book by a leading intellectual...
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I only caught a few lines of this book (first sighting) when sitting next to a total stranger on the tube in the London (England) area. It was sufficent to ask about the book which is, as any student of interaction knows, rare on public transport. Having purchased the publication I was not let down by the perceptive content within the written words. Being a cautious student of classical conditioning I was drawn, and, impressed.
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