A Lover's Discourse: Fragments For more than 50 years

For more than 50 years

highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated

gray English climate

"Brave and absorbing

John Flanagan returns to conclude the series that has conquered millions of readers worldwide with this pulse-pounding adventure that brings one era to a close

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments For more than 50 yearsA 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.