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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
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Beschreibung
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White
'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times
'Brilliant' - Dazed
'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett
'Electrifying' - Colm Tóibín
'Dazzling' - Katherine Angel
After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death.
On publication in 1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.
Rezensionen
[Guibert'
Relentlessly honest, extraordinarily truthful
The father of autofiction, the master of finding that perfect balance of truth and beauty.
One of the most beautiful, haunting, and fascinating works in the French autofictional canon. Guibert grapples with his own AIDS diagnosis, and the death of his friend Muzil, in a dazzling piece of writing. It's a book that gives me goose-bumps every time I open it - I'm thrilled that it's being reissued in the UK, where Guibert'
Thirty years on, it can be hard to adequately describe what things felt like when AIDS first swung its wrecking ball. But that'
A writer of courage, beguiling flair
This moving French bestseller ... reads like a personal memoir. Delivered with wit, verve and valor
As much about friendship, intimacy, and betrayal as it is about sickness. ... Brilliant
'Dark and unsettling, yet Guibert manages to find beauty and tenderness in the world around him.'
Outstandingly colloquial and exact translation ... urgent and monitory. ... Restrained and controlled...but full of well-noticed contrasting details that combine to create an effect that Guibert...characterized as "barbarous and delicate."
'Reveals <b>a writer of courage, beguiling flair, and sometimes maddening nastiness</b> ... The rare book that truly deserves the epithet "unflinching."
The book is <b>a lightly fictionalized (and magnificently indiscreet) account of the final days of the philosopher Michel Foucault</b>, Guibert'
Written with urgency, clarity, controlled rage. ... it is electrifying in its searing honesty
[Full of] innovation and historical importance, ... breathtaking indiscretion, tenderness and gore.
Kundenbewertungen
Wayne Koestenbaum, How to Survive a Plague, best Autofiction, Close to the Knives, Edouard Louis, Best French Books, Maggie Nelson, Dallas Buyer's Club, It's a Sin!, Olivia Laing, AIDS, Garth Greenwell, David Wojnarowicz, Ocean Vuong