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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792473903321

Autore

Guibert Hervé

Titolo

Cytomegalovirus : a hospitalization diary / / Hervé Guibert ; introduction by David Caron ; afterword by Todd Meyers ; translated by Clara Orban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016

©1996

ISBN

0-8232-6860-8

Edizione

[First Fordham University Press edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (93 p.)

Collana

Forms of living

Classificazione

BIO007000MED050000

Disciplina

616.9/25 B

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Patients

Cytomegalovirus infections - Patients - France

Hospital patients - France

Authors - France

Eye - Infections - Patients - France

AIDS (Disease) - Complications - Patients - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Respect, One Dessert Spoon at a Time -- David Caron -- Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary -- Afterword: Remainders -- Todd Meyers -- Translator's Note.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--

"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"--