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

The original text sees Barthes writing about a single figure and the nature of their internal discourse caused by the ' other'. Even the slight sense of loneliness and nostalgia, the sense of yearning each phrase portrays. This is a reply to Roland Barthes 'A Lover's Discourse'. 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. The starting point was the book « A Lover's Discourse » by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Everything about these pieces to me is just beautiful. Roland Barthes came up with the best way to write about love and loss in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments as it is only through fragments that we build our narrative of love and naturally of the self. The book's title was inspired by Roland Barthes' “A Lover's Discourse: Fragments,” his 1977 impressionistic treatise on desire. Fragments of Gray » was realised as part of a course at the Berlin University of the Arts. In linking The Immoralist with a fragment from a Lover's Discourse, I chose the piece entitled "The Uncertainty of Signs." When a person questions the existence of "true love" with another individual, they might look for signs. 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. The Lovers Discourse- a reply to Barthes.