Lovers' Whispers: A Deconstructivist Text

Author: Roland Barthes
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This is a unique book that cannot be classified by traditional standards. The author attempts a highly neurotic "divergent" style of writing, blending speculation with direct demonstration. It is a "perspective from scattered points" and "zero-degree writing." It's like a kaleidoscope: the author extracts colorful fragments of love experiences and structures bewildering arrangements through the reflective mirror of his philosophical speculation. The author reveals through corresponding forms of writing that lovers' ramblings are merely various feelings and scattered thoughts, untethered and tangled. In comparison, previous analyses of love and lovers' speech, with their verbose and simplistic "philosophical" style, appear outdated and superficial—exactly what deconstructionism seeks to prove. This is a unique book that cannot be classified by traditional standards. The author attempts a highly neurotic "divergent" style of writing, blending speculation with direct demonstration. It is a "perspective from scattered points" and "zero-degree writing." It's like a kaleidoscope: the author extracts colorful fragments of love experiences and structures bewildering arrangements through the reflective mirror of his philosophical speculation. The author reveals through corresponding forms of writing that lovers' ramblings are merely various feelings and scattered thoughts, untethered and tangled. In comparison, previous analyses of love and lovers' speech, with their verbose and simplistic "philosophical" style, appear outdated and superficial—exactly what deconstructionism seeks to prove.