Roland Barthes
Fragments d'un discours amoureux. 
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Collection "Tel Quel". 2020046059 280 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 
Originally published in 1977 (translated as "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments"), this work contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view.
“Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language--primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with her or her partner--is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest.” ―Jonathan Culler