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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
Aug. 4, 2021 - Dec. 1, 2023 (read, literary-criticism)

Barthes, R. (1979). A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Hill and Wang.


Hill and Wang, 1979. 234 pages. Paperback. 9780374521615

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p.221
alterity »
(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of…
p.210
panegyric »
(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) f…
p.147
divagation »
(verb) to wander or stray from a course or subjec…
p.141
abnegation »
(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting somethi…
p.138
imbroglio »
an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassi…
p.224
we shut ourselves up in a mutual kindness
There is not only need for tenderness, there is a…
p.216
it is a fragrance without support
"It is a glorious summer, and I often sit up in t…
p.167
a story in which you no longer believed
“When you were talking to him, discussing any sub…
p.149
we might call it a proffering
[...] We might call it a proffering, which has no…
p.85
the epidemic of suicides provoked by Werther
(A British lord, and subsequently a bishop, blame…