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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Roland Barthes
Publisher: Hill and Wang

Barthes calls them "figures" -- gestures of the lover at work. I have a love/hate relationship with this book (borrowed from Maki). Her Infinity Nets and infinity (mirror) rooms floor me and I find myself thinking about them while writing. ROLAND BARTHES' book, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments inspired VOIGT to create a series of 36 collaged drawings entitled, Piece for Words and Views (see above). Fragments d'Un Discours Amoureux (1977)/ A Lover's Discourse – Fragments. Literally, 'the wisdom of the stairs'. In Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, we see the idea that a lover is truly in extreme solitude even when in a relationship. Screen capture from Los abrazos rotos [Broken Embraces], 2009, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Roland Barthes: was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. In linking The Immoralist with a fragment from a Lover's Discourse, I chose the piece entitled "The Uncertainty of Signs." When a person questions the existence of "true love" with another individual, they might look for signs. A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. Rychcik has directed shows by Bertolt Brecht (Versus: In the Jungle of Cities), Roland Barthes (Fragments: A Lover's Discourse) and recently premiered an adaptation of Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary. In A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes compiles a (non-exhaustive) list of "fragments" pertaining to the discourse oflovers. I think of everyone who comes to A Lover's Discourse: Fragments as an intruder to my love affair with it, its captivation of me, my willing enslavement to it. Which, since reading A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, has made me think of Treppenwitz. Cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not – this is the beginning of writing.