by Hervé Guibert · France Loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724262988
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«À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie» is Hervé Guibert's autobiographical novel, published by France Loisirs in hardback (265 pages, in French).
Hervé Guibert narrates in the first person his life after contracting AIDS: the advance of the disease, the hope of a cure, and the disappointment caused by Bill, a friend who promises him a miraculous treatment that never arrives. With direct prose, Guibert reflects on friendship, illness, and writing as testimony in the face of death.
First instalment of an autobiographical trilogy devoted to AIDS. The novel was originally published in 1990; this France Loisirs edition is from 1991.
For readers of contemporary French literature, autobiographical narrative, and testimonies about the AIDS epidemic.
Hervé Guibert was a French writer, photographer, photography critic and filmmaker. A multidisciplinary artist, his work focused on writing, photography and film, and is closely associated with autofiction and autobiographical writing.
