Written in Invisible Ink
Selected Stories
$30.18
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2020
Summary
Stories that map the writer’s artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.Herve 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 years of his life, chronicling his coexistence with illness, he has been a powerful influence on man…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901197 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Zuckerman, Hervé Guibert |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
Anonymity comes for us all soon enough, but it has encroached with mystifying speed upon the French writer Hervé Guibert, who died at 36 in 1991. His work has been strangely neglected in the Anglophone world, never mind its innovation and historical importance, its breathtaking indiscretion, tenderness and gore. How can an artist so original, so thrillingly indifferent to convention and the tyranny of good taste — let alone one so prescient — remain untranslated and unread?
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Book ReviewAbout The Author
Jeffrey Zuckerman
Herve 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 Cesar for best screenplay for L’Homme Blesse. 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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