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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1977

Author
  
Roland Barthes

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Language
  
French

Originally published
  
1977

OCLC
  
10314663

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Original title
  
Fragments d’un discours amoureux

Similar
  
Roland Barthes books, Other books

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.

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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.

Editions

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

    A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Wikipedia