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

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. Even the slight sense of loneliness and nostalgia, the sense of yearning each phrase portrays. Everything about these pieces to me is just beautiful. Barthes calls them "figures" -- gestures of the lover at work. 'Roland Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is A Lover's Discourse, a writing out of the discourse of love. Lorsqu'on dit "Je t'aime", ça veut dire : je t'aime donc tu es obligé de m'aimer. Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. To take the fragments which have emerged as a deconstruction and reaction to the text and to reorder them alphabetically, under titles which loosely summarise the theme/content of the particular thought. Time, an indispensable dimension of pleasure, is cut into fragments that can no longer be enjoyed” (Bifo 5). (Fragments of a Lover's Discourse) Roland Barthes. This is a reply to Roland Barthes 'A Lover's Discourse'. Ergo, the lover's discourse is built on backwards compatibility with each model deriving from its predecessor. A-Lovers-Discourse-Fragments-by-Roland-Barthes. In A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes compiles a (non-exhaustive) list of "fragments" pertaining to the discourse oflovers. (Fragments d'un discours amoureux) Roland Barthes. Dire "Je t'aime" n'est jamais gratuit. The Lovers Discourse- a reply to Barthes. The original text sees Barthes writing about a single figure and the nature of their internal discourse caused by the ' other'.