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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (Paperback)
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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (Paperback)
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List price R474
Loot Price R398
Discovery Miles 3 980
You Save R76 (16%)
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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 his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to
another, describing the progression of the disease and recording
the reactions of his many friends. The novel scandalized the French
media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend
Michel Foucault. To the Friend became a bestseller, and Guibert a
celebrity. Guibert continued to document the daily experiences of
his body in a series of novels and diaries, mostly published
posthumously. To the Friend has since attained a cult following for
its intimate and candid tone, its fragmented and slippery form. As
Edmund White observed, "[Guibert's] very taste for the grotesque,
this compulsion to offend, finally affords him the necessary
rhetorical panache to convey the full, exhilarating horror of his
predicament." In his struggle to piece together a language suited
to his suffering, Herve Guibert catapulted himself into notoriety
and sealed his reputation for uncompromising, transgressive prose.
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