A Lover's Discourse

-May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language- Washington Post

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an ''image repertoire''.

Reviving the notion of the amorous subject beyond psychological or clinical enterprises, Barthes- A Lover-s Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love, or indeed, thought themselves to be immune to its power.