Cytomegalovirus

A Hospitalization Diary

By:

Herve Guibert

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Hardback

Series:

Forms of Living

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By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death—as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats—at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert’s work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness.

Author Biography:

Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University-Shanghai. He is the author of The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy.

Release date NZ

October 1st, 2015

Author

Herve Guibert

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Afterword by Todd Meyers
Introduction by David Caron
Translated by Clara Orban

Pages

Series

Forms of Living

Dimensions

140x218x13

ISBN-13

9780823268566

Product ID

23085385

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