Love examined through cultural references
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Love examined through cultural references
Roland Barthes approaches love as a subject for analysis, drawing on structuralist ideas and a wide range of literary, philosophical, musical, and psychological references. The title signals a fragmentary form, while the description points to an exploration of love through works and thinkers including Goethe, Plato, Proust, Baudelaire, Schubert, and Winnicott. The book sits at the intersection of literary criticism and reflections on love, bringing different traditions into conversation around the experience it examines.
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A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.
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