What is the author's tone in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes?

The overall tone of "A Lover's Discourse" is rather gentle and sympathetic. There is nothing that is hard-edged or accusatory about the irrational and self-destructive thinking that is part of a lover's discourse. Rather, there is a soft tone that shamelessly allows the lover to be irrational, to be mad and to be self-effacing.