A Lover's Discourse / Un Discours Amoureux - Sharon Kivland
Sharon Kivland
Ma Bibliotheque, ISBN 9781910055281,
Pb, 104 pgs, 14 x 20cm
Language: English & French
Acqn. 33522
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£10.00
Pb, 104 pgs, 14 x 20cm
Language: English & French
Acqn. 33522
In Stock
£10.00
Vanessa thinks she might have fallen in love with me. She wants to meet new people, with me, perhaps. She finds my profile rather nice, and suggests that she and I might meet. She has been kind enough to send me a photograph of herself, but if I would like to see more, suggests that I visit her profile. She sends me little kisses.
I read unsolicited 'encounter' emails as if they were intended for me alone in a sincere desire for a real love relation, until their repetition bored me. I posted them on Facebook, while I sought their form. My friend A. C. wrote to tell me how much he was enjoying my lover's discourse. The form became clear: after the French edition of Roland Barthes's Fragments d'un discours amoureux ("Tel Quel", Seuil, 1977).
How is this book written: Everything is part of this principle: that we should not reduce the lover to a mere symptomatic subject, but rather make us hear what there is in her unreal voice, that is to say, intractable. [...] it gives reading a place of speech: the place of someone who speaks lovingly in front of the other (the loved object), who does not speak.