![]() ![]() In this companionable incest, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled. “Besides intercourse (when the Image-repertoire goes to the devil), there is that other embrace, which is a motionless cradling: we are enchanted, bewitched: we are in the realm of sleep, without sleeping we are within the voluptous infantilism of sleepiness: this is the moment for telling stories, the moment of the voice which takes me, siderates me, this is the return to the mother ("in the loving calm of your arms," says a poem set to music by Duparc). ![]() ― Roland Barthes, quote from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments A moment of affirmation for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).” In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other. this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize). Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humor, this intimate and tender novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.“You see the first thing we love is a scene. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in post-Brexit vote Britain, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.Ī LOVER'S DISCOURSE is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.Ī Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program - and to begin a new life - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. “What do you mean? Wasn’t it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?” I thought we were definitely in love at first sight. “I don’t believe in love at first sight.” A story of desire, love, language and the meaning of home - told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit London.
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