In the canon
A Lover's Discourse
Roland Barthes
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1977
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 240
The other is late, and you are in the café doing the arithmetic of a delay: the traffic, the missed train, the possibility of never. Roland Barthes gathered eighty such moments and set them in alphabetical order, a dictionary of the states a lover passes through, and then refused to explain a single one from the outside.
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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