To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Herve Guibert, Andrew Durbin (Introduction by)

$16.95

Publication Date: May 19th, 2020

Publisher:

Semiotext(e)

ISBN:

9781635901238

Pages:

264

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"Sharp, dark, and terrifying."

—Rebecca

About the Author

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

Praise for To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

"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, Guibert’s 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