This book "circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herv???e Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In [his] diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. The first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online ...
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This book "circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herv???e Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In [his] diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. The first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection. The second half, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague, continues the meditation on friendship, solitude, time, mortality, precarity, art, and literature"--
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