Posted on Thursday, 17 March 2011

dianerosales: I am hating myself for not finding and buying this book. I’ve been looking for this since I entered college, as recommended by my previous prose editor from Malate Literary Folio, Stan Geronimo. The last time I checked, it wasn’t available here in the country and I have to order to get a hold of it. Now, I’m seeing some of my batch mates in my college last year having a copy. I guess I have to search for that type of Roland Barthes’ book. Here’s one review about this book:“Barthes’s most popular and unusual performance as a writer is “A Lover’s Discourse,” a writing out of the discourse of love. This language—primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner—is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse … Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in “A Lover’s Discourse” by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest.”  —Jonathan Culler

dianerosales:

I am hating myself for not finding and buying this book. I’ve been looking for this since I entered college, as recommended by my previous prose editor from Malate Literary Folio, Stan Geronimo. The last time I checked, it wasn’t available here in the country and I have to order to get a hold of it. Now, I’m seeing some of my batch mates in my college last year having a copy. I guess I have to search for that type of Roland Barthes’ book.

Here’s one review about this book:

“Barthes’s most popular and unusual performance as a writer is “A Lover’s Discourse,” a writing out of the discourse of love. This language—primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner—is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse … Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in “A Lover’s Discourse” by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest.”  —Jonathan Culler

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