In A Lover's Discourse -fragments Barthes proposes on the page under the title, 'how this book is constructed' a structural portrait in the form of a set of utterances — someone speaking on a particular aspect of the loved one. His entries operate almost like a cubist painting where one can view or enter the discursive site from a number of different points, each fragment separate, yet at the same time referring to the whole which it seeks to illuminate.