A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the
author's life. "I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never
did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or
exasperation when it came to him. ... I was intensely close to
Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his
apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the period
that changed my life, my cut-off from a fate leading to the
precipice. In no specific way I'm grateful to Michel, without
knowing for exactly what, for a better life." -from Learning What
Love Means In 1978, Mathieu Lindon met Michel Foucault. Lindon was
twenty-three years old, part of a small group of jaded but
innocent, brilliant, and sexually ambivalent friends who came to
know Foucault. At first the nominal caretakers of Foucault's
apartment on rue de Vaugirard when he was away, these young friends
eventually shared their time, drugs, ambitions, and writings with
the older Foucault. Lindon's friend, the late Herve Guibert, was a
key figure within this group. The son of the renowned founder of
Editions de Minuit, Lindon grew up with Marguerite Duras, Alain
Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett as family friends. Much was
expected of him. But, as he writes in this remarkable spiritual
autobiography, it was through his friendship with Foucault-who was
neither lover nor father but an older friend-that he found the
direction that would influence the rest of his life. As Bruce
Benderson writes in his introduction, "The book is a collage of
free-associated episodes and interpretatons that together compose
for the reader a kind of manual about how to love. ... As he runs
from apartment to apartment, job to job, or lover to lover, the
book becomes a story of conversion testifying to an author's
radical change of viewpoint, which leads to his invitation into the
social world through lessons about love." A brilliant meditation on
friendship, Learning What Loves Means provides an insight into a
part of Foucault's life and work that until now, remained unkown.
The book won the prestigious Prix Medicis in 2011 when it was
published in French.
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