Bøger af Hervé Guibert

En novembernat falder Vincent, beruset og skæv, ud fra tredje sal. Han rejser sig op, sætter sig ind i sin bil og kører hjem. Om morgenen forsøger hans mor at ruske liv i ham, og få dage senere dør han i en hospitalsseng. Her starter ›Vild med Vincent‹, en autofiktiv dagbog af den franske forfatter og fotograf Hervé Guibert – og et gravskrift for den enigmatiske Vincent, der invaderede hans dagbøger, oplivede hans tilværelse og fornedrede ham i de seks år, de kendte hinanden.Politiken: “Et lille mesterværk,” fem hjerter. *****Anbefalet i Weekendavisen, Føljeton, POV – og af Glenn Bech i Poptillægget.Det er en bog om monomant begær; efter hans død går fortælleren baglæns gennem sine personlige noter for at genfinde Vincent og for at udrede sin fatale besættelse af ham – som aids-syg misbruger, dernæst som teenageren, han først forelskede sig i. Resultatet er en ustadig og uregerlig tekst, lige dele desperat eksperiment og sørgmodig elegi.Hervé Guibert er bedst kendt for de bøger, han skrev om sin egen aids-sygdom og udgav kort før sin død i 1991. I de seneste år har forfatterens bøger nydt en genopblomstring i en række engelsksprogede oversættelser, men det er første gang siden 1993, at han udkommer på dansk.Weekendavisen: ”En type tekst, der får sin særlige alvor og aura fra en blanding af det nøgterne og det melodramatiske.”Føljeton: ”Ubærligt smukke beskrivelser af kærlighed.”POV: ”Vild med Vincent er vidunderligt sorgfuld, og grim i sin sult.”

Cytomegalovirus er den franske fotograf og forfatter Hervé Guiberts bidende og forpinte dagbog fra en indlæggelse på et parisisk hospital i 1991. På et tidspunkt, hvor han er ved at miste synet og bliver bevidst om sin forestående død, bliver dagbogen et stærkt vidnesbyrd om, hvordan hverdagen med en terminal sygdom opleves med al dens smerte, frygt og øjeblikke af fryd og klarsyn. Hvordan opretholder man sin værdighed, når kroppen sætter ud? Guibert insisterer på at være mere end patient i mødet med de forskellige plejere og nægter at gå til operationsstuen i hospitalets kittel. Cytomegalovirus er et vigtigt dokument fra aids-epidemiens historie og en rørende og original læseoplevelse. Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) var fotograf, journalist og forfatter. Han var hiv-smittet og døde som 36-årig efter et selvmordsforsøg. Han efterlod sig mere end tredive værker. På dansk er tidligere udkommet Til den ven der ikke reddede mit liv (1993) og Vild med Vincent (2023). Bogen har efterord af C.Y. Frostholm.

Hervé Guibert''s incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, Mentir, and sent him his La mort propagande, which had just been published. In the following years, they exchanged the books they had written, read each other, appreciated each other. They saw each other rarely, however: one lived in Liège, the other Paris. A turning point occurred in 1982, when Hervé published "Lettre à un frère d’écriture," in which he declared to Eugène, "I love you through your writing." The tone had changed; Hervé, obsessed with his correspondent, wrote him increasingly incandescent letters. 1984 would, however, see the sudden extinguishing of that passion. A deep friendship replaced it, which found itself with new areas to explore: the adventure of publishing L’Autre Journal and at the Villa Medicis, where they were both fellows. These nearly eighty letters, exchanged between 1977 and 1987, form a correspondence that is all the more unique for being the only one whose publication was authorized by Guibert. An intersection of life and writing, self and other, reality and fiction, their release is a renewal of Guibert’s oeuvre.

*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.

A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.

Stories that map the writer's artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.

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.