To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert (English) Paperback Book

Description: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert, Andrew Durbin, Edmund White, Linda Coverdale A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrators experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrators experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrators experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. Guibert chronicles three months in the penultimate year of the narrators life as, in the wake of his friend Muzils death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, describing the progression of the disease and recording the reactions of his many friends.The novel scandalized the French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guiberts close friend Michel Foucault. To the Friend became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. Guibert continued to document the daily experiences of his body in a series of novels and diaries, mostly published posthumously. To the Friend has since attained a cult following for its intimate and candid tone, its fragmented and slippery form. As Edmund White observed, " Guiberts very taste for the grotesque, this compulsion to offend, finally affords him the necessary rhetorical panache to convey the full, exhilarating horror of his predicament." In his struggle to piece together a language suited to his suffering, Herve Guibert catapulted himself into notoriety and sealed his reputation for uncompromising, transgressive prose. Author Biography Herve Guibert (1955-1991) was a writer, a photography critic for Le Monde, a photographer, and a filmmaker. In 1984 he and Patrice Chereau were awarded a Cesar for best screenplay for LHomme Blesse. Shortly before his death from AIDS, he completed La Pudeur ou Limpudeur, a video work that chronicles the last days of his life. Review Anonymity comes for us all soon enough, but it has encroached with mystifying speed upon the French writer Hervé Guibert, who died at 36 in 1991. His work has been strangely neglected in the Anglophone world, never mind its innovation and historical importance, its breathtaking indiscretion, tenderness and gore. How can an artist so original, so thrillingly indifferent to convention and the tyranny of good taste — let alone one so prescient — remain untranslated and unread?—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Book Review Review Quote "Guibert was a pioneer of autofiction and the author of this truly great AIDS novel, newly translated this year. The book is a lightly fictionalized (and magnificently indiscreet) account of the final days of the philosopher Michel Foucault, Guiberts neighbor and friend. Guibert possesses an aloof, silvery style -- a cool envelope for scalding material: a homage to a friendship and its betrayal, and a document of the breakdown of his own body. It is an unforgettable, heartbreaking evocation of the early days of the epidemic, when gay men were forced to become their own scientists, lobbyists, archivists." --Parul Sehgal, the New York Times Book Review, one of the Top 20 Books of 2020 Details ISBN1635901235 Author Linda Coverdale Series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Year 2020 Translator Linda Coverdale ISBN-10 1635901235 ISBN-13 9781635901238 Format Paperback Imprint Semiotext Place of Publication New York DEWEY FIC Language English UK Release Date 2020-06-02 Pages 272 AU Release Date 2020-05-19 NZ Release Date 2020-05-19 US Release Date 2020-05-19 Publisher Semiotext (E) Publication Date 2020-06-02 Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781635901252 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141996306;

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