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May 7, 2012 · An excerpt from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse...Yet to hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something…
- Roland Barthes
- 1977
- “Am I in love? -- yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game.
- “You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love.
- “As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”
- “I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.” ― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.
In A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, semiologist Barthes offers an original portrait of the modern lover through an analysis of speech figures.
Oct 31, 2019 · And yet, I chose to open this essay with Barthes because I catch a glimpse of something like a wily wink behind the dark glasses of Auden’s writing— ‘a fine example of denial: to darken the sight in order not to be seen.’
(One of the most imaginative chapters of the book is appropriately titled “Dark Glasses”—the paradox of public hiding [cacher].) Why should we suspect that the author's own love life, like his discourse, was fragmented?
Books shelved as dark-glasses: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Existentialism and Romantic Love by...
Jun 27, 2024 · G – Glasses (dark) Should I hide that I love you, precisely because I love you? Barthes suggests this is the lover’s dilemma because the lover sees the beloved with “a double vision: sometimes as object, sometimes as subject.”
