Böcker av Herve Guibert

*Written soon after the author realized he was dying of AIDS, he called this book "a short narrative on the idea that AIDS makes young people old." The book is both an attempt by the author to write into the aging he would miss and a meditation on being dependent on hired help. *This groundbreaking work now published with a new introduction by Shiv Kotecha contextualizing My Manservant within a larger framework of transgressive white writing that uses race as a literary device*Author was a well known French writer and photographer who wrote criticism for the Le Monde as well as some thirty books. His most notable work was To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which presents an intimate portrait of Michel Foucault and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France towards AIDS.*Translator is an award-winning full-time translator of French poetry, who has been selected for numerous prizes and accolades including The Culture Trip's "20 Translators Under 40" in 2017; being longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize; and winning the French Voices Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award. *The republication of The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life resulted in vast media coverage.

The long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert¿s arresting journals

The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS.

Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

Features sixty-three short essays. Both a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, this book not only reveals the author's particular experience as a gay artist captivated by the transience and physicality of his media and his life, but also his thoughts on the more technical aspects of his vocation.