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

4.0

Barthes, like many philosophical writers (at least for me), is by no means an easy read, but something about this one let me really fall into it. It deconstructs love in such a committed and elegant way, that even when I was confused by the density or diction, his words bypassed my (left?) brain and somehow made me *feel* what he was writing - so his writing communicated with me far more effectively in a way. I give it 3.5 stars mostly because this genre isn't my fave, but I'll round up to 4 because the structure and format is so well imagined and executed.