A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Cover of the first edition
Author	Roland Barthes
Original title	Fragments d’un discours amoureux
Country	France
Language	French
Publication date	1977
OCLC	10314663

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (French: Fragments d’un discours amoureux) is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.

Film adaptation

The book was adapted into a Hong Kong movie in Cantonese by directors Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan called Lover's Discourse 戀人絮語(2010). The film consisted of four interconnected stories about love and lovers. The ensemble cast of the film includes Eason Chan, Karena Lam, Kay Tse, Mavis Fan, Eddie Peng, Jacky Heung and Kit Chen.

Cultural references

A Lover's Discourse is mentioned in and central to the plot of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Marriage Plot (2011).

Editions

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, translated from the French by Richard Howard, Hill and Wang, (1979), ISBN 0-374-52161-1

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