A lover's discourse: fragments

[The author's] most popular and unusual performance as a writer is [this book], 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 his or her partner, is unfashionable.

Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, ©1978. 1st pbk. ed.

Translation of: Fragments d'un discours amoureux.

s'abimer/to be engulfed -- absence/absence -- adorable/adorable -- affirmation/affirmation -- alteration/alteration -- angoisse/anxiety -- annulation/annulment -- askesis -- atopos -- attente/waiting -- cacher/to hide -- cases/pigeonholed -- catastrophe -- circonscrire/to circumscribe -- coeur/heart -- comblement/fulfillment -- compassion/compassion -- comprendre/to understand -- conduite/behavior -- connivence/connivance -- contacts/contacts -- contingences/contingencies -- corps/body -- declaration/declaraton -- dedicace-dedication // demons/demons -- dependance/dependency -- depense/expenditure -- derealite/disreality -- drame/drama -- ecorche/flayed -- ecrire/to write -- errance-errantry -- etreinte/embrace -- exil/exile -- facheus/irksome -- fading/fade-out -- fautes/faults -- fete/festivity -- fou/mad -- gene/embarrassment -- Gradiva -- habit/habiliment -- identification/identification -- image/image -- inconnaissable/unknowable -- induction/induction -- informateur/informer -- insupportable/unbearable -- issues/outcomes -- jalousie/jealousy -- je-t-aime/I-love-you -- langueur/languor -- lettre/letter -- loquela -- magie/magic -- monsteus/monstrous -- mutisme/silence -- nuag…