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. In A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes compiles a (non-exhaustive) list of "fragments" pertaining to the discourse oflovers. Reality is borne along on sweat and sighs. A Lover's Discourse : Fragments by Roland Barthes. €All the delights of the earth” :: A Lover's Discourse. [Roland Barthes, Fragments d'un discours amoreux (1977); English translation: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments] The quoted passage is translated from the Dutch. Fragment: Transparency (A Lover's Discourse). €voguing” , the installation from “udk rundgang 2010/aus dem Kontext. In A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes) * She moans and rises, his face finds her neck, warm and salty and sweet. Fragments d'Un Discours Amoureux (1977)/ A Lover's Discourse – Fragments. Roland Barthes: was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. Voguing, an installation with mimosa pudica, wallpaper and roland barthes' “fragments of a lover's discourse”. Roland Barthes' text Fragments d'un discours amoureux (A Lover's Discourse. Fragments) has been a cherished companion of mine for a long time. Barthes calls them "figures" -- gestures of the lover at work.