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Acosmos and the

Story Lovers

Homage to Roland Barthes

Mike Gane

KEY SELLING POINTS
A collection of witty and entertaining stories written in a conversational style and exchanged by a couple and
their love of reading and sharing stories.
Set in the mid 1990s and references the work of Roland Barthes, which is critiqued throughout.

Two people meet and discover they share a love of acting, telling stories and reading Roland Barthes. They
agree to meet up two or three times a month and exchange haikus and stories that occur to them after reading
Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments.
As their stories are exchanged the couple’s relationship develops, changes, and reaches a strange climax.

The collections of stories are entertaining, witty, sometimes shocking and poke fun at the dour and laboured
Fragments of Roland Barthes, posing the question of what the meaning of a story is if it is to be part of an
exchange and what in life is not exchanged?

Mike Gane attended schools in Poole Dorset before taking degrees at Leicester University and London School
of Economics (1973). He taught social sciences at Loughborough University from 1972 to 2008. He is the
author of Harmless Lovers? Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships (Routledge, 1993), and has edited with
Nicholas Gane Roland Barthes (3 vols, Sage 2004) and Umberto Eco (3 vols, Sage 2005). Mike is based in
France.

Publication Date: 28th May 2024 £8.99 ISBN: 9781805143741
Thema subject category: FB – Fiction: general and literary
paperback 198 x 129 mm 96 pp Portrait Author location: Cadalen

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