☰

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary (Forms of Living)

Sold Out / Out of Stock

Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary (Forms of Living)

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.
Country USA
Brand Fordham University Press
Manufacturer Fordham University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2015-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780823268573

You might also like...

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

The Complete Persepolis

The Complete Persepolis

In Cold Blood

Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991

Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (High Risk Books)

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (High Risk Books)

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

My Parents (Masks)

My Parents (Masks)

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger