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  • My Manservant and Me

    by Hervé Guibert ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ...
    A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.My Manservantand Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author of extremely successful middlebrow plays, we learn about his manservant, a young film actor who is easily moved to both delicate gestures and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Image

    by Hervé Guibert ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    " [A] memoir and love letter to the medium" containing essays on photography and artistic life from the French photographer and author ( Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

    by Herve Guibert ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cytomegalovirus

    A Hospitalization Diary

    by Hervé Guibert, Todd Meyers ...
    Translated by Clara Orban ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Letters to Eugène

    Correspondence 1977–1987

    by Herve Guibert, Eugene Savitzkaya ...
    Translated by Christine Pichini ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, Mentir, and sent him his La mort propagande, which had just been published. In the following years, they exchanged the books they had written, read each other, appreciated each other. They saw each other rarely, however: one lived in Liège, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Written in Invisible Ink

    Selected Stories

    by Herve Guibert ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    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 aggressive candor, detachment, and passion, mixing diary writing, memoir, and fiction. Best known for the series of books he wrote during the last ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Getting Lost

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  • Pétronille

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