#roland barthes

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse; Fragments [translated by Richard Howard]

[readmydesire]

roland barthes on his late mother, from camera lucida: reflections on photography pub. 1980.

[luthienne]

José Saramago, Cain (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)

Roland Barthes, Mythologies (tr. Annette Lavers)

[oldwinesoul]

“I knew no end to desiring you.”

// Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse; Fragments

[nighttime-thoughts]

You stopped saying goodnight and i stopped sleeping.

[twothousandeight]

1. Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

2. George Bataille, Erotism: Death And Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood

[thirdity]

The imperfect is the tense of fascination: it seems to be alive and yet it doesn't move: imperfect presence, imperfect death; neither oblivion nor resurrection; simply the exhausting lure of memory. From the start, greedy to play a role, scenes take their position in memory: often I feel this, I foresee this, at the very moment when these scenes are forming. —This theater of time is very contrary of the search of lost time; for I remember pathetically, punctually, and not philosophically, discursively: I remember in order to be unhappy/happy — not in order to understand. I do not write, I do not shut myself up in order to write the enormous novel of time recaptured.

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse

[brideofquietness]

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse