Product Description

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".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #503751 in Books
• Published on: 1990-08-30
• Original language: French
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Handbook for the Lovelorn
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...

I read this on the tube over someones shoulder - spot on !
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.