Hervelino
$33.06
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2022
Summary
On Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered.
“Soon that was my nickname for Hervé, what with my habit of Italianizing the names of my nearest and dearest… Hervelino - that didn’t make me think so much of Hervé as of us both. The word might not seem like much but it was him and it was me, he took it for himself.”
Mathieu Lindon met the writer and photographer Hervé Guibert in 1978. The nickname Hervelino marked the start of thei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901702 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901707 |
| Author: | Mathieu Lindon, Jeffrey Zuckerman |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Undoubtedly, Hervelino is one of the most beautiful books ever written on friendship, because there is no attempt to explain it. He states it in its evidence and elegantly shares it with us, the time of a book, as if it were there forever.”
—Christine Marcandier, Diacritik
“The tragic here is signified with heart-wrenching simplicity.”
—L’Humanité
“Mathieu Lindon wields the deep art of lightness. Words like blades shearing snowflakes. It is difficult to detach scenes and sentences from each other, as everything comes from an intimate atmosphere. One enters it little by little and finds one’s place there. […] There is his customary humor, we laugh, but the light comes from elsewhere. Hervelino is the story of a double survival: how we survive those we love and how those we love survive us.”
—Le Point
About The Author
Mathieu Lindon
Mathieu Lindon is the author of nineteen books and a staff writer for Liberation. Learning What Love Means received the prestigious Prix Medici in France in 2011 and was the first of his works to appear in English.
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