Herve Guibert

• Jul-1991
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In an unflinching novel about life with AIDS, an imaginative and vital narrator describes the underground lifestyle of his friend, a character based on the philosopher Michel Foucault, until the narrator faces his own infection and death sentence...

• Jan-1992
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Following an unpleasant encounter with a gang of extortioners, the narrator of this novel leaves for a holiday with an acquaintance, Vincent, whose ambiguous and menacing presence becomes increasingly oppressive. A story of homosexuality by the autho...

• Jul-1994
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A blend of autobiography and fiction by the French journalist and novelist offers a portrait of family life, from early scandals to the author's extended dependence on his parents to his admitted homosexuality and the emotional trauma of his mother's...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction
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A work of remarkable imagination and insight; never before has such an extraordinary description of what it is to be blind been written. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering into their minds and bodies and seeing the inner and out...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976â€"1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself ― a mausoleum of lovers ― comes to take its plac...

• May-2020
• / Literary
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Stories that map the writer's artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.Hervé Guibert published twenty-five books before dying of AIDS in 1991 at age 36. An originator of French "autofiction" of the 1990s, Guibert wrote with...

• Nov-2021
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ARTHUR'S WHIMS is the tale of a modern saint, a love story born of a childhood dream of being alone on a boat with a boy, a friend. Arthur and his beloved Bichon -- a young man who, after drinking Arthur's tears, becomes pregnant with his child -- dr...

• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction
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A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, inco...