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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Paperback - 2020

by Herve Guibert; Introduction by Andrew Durbin

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A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's 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 narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. Guibert chronicles three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life as, in the wake of his friend Muzil's 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 Guibert's 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, "[Guibert's] 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, Herv Guibert catapulted himself into notoriety and sealed his reputation for uncompromising, transgressive prose.

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  • Title To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
  • Author Herve Guibert; Introduction by Andrew Durbin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Semiotext(e)
  • Publication date 2020-05-19
  • ISBN 9781635901238 / 1635901235
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.44 x 0.78 in (20.32 x 13.82 x 1.98 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophers - France, Romans aa clef
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Herv 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 Csar for best screenplay for L'Homme Bless. Shortly before his death from AIDS, he completed La Pudeur ou L'impudeur, a video work that chronicles the last days of his life.

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