A review by mvolz
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes

3.0

Barthes can be a bit confusing and rambling sometimes, but I'm willing to chalk it up to poor translation. There are some things he conveys quite nicely, however. My favorite essay is "langeur" which doesn't seem to have a direct English translation but for which there are words in at least French and Japanese. It's a kind of desire I experience quite frequently, so it was nice to have a name to put to it, albeit a foreign one.