LEADER 04325nam 2200625 450 001 9910780657203321 005 20240102235803.0 010 $a1-4426-7085-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670853 035 $a(DE-B1597)464177 035 $a(OCoLC)1002263880 035 $a(OCoLC)1004872841 035 $a(OCoLC)1011446236 035 $a(OCoLC)1013960969 035 $a(OCoLC)944178500 035 $a(OCoLC)999354755 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256906 035 $a(OCoLC)958515414 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/8dm4kf 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418047 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255308 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001437 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001437 100 $a20160922h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAngelic echoes $eHerve? Guibert and company /$fRalph Sarkonak 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2000. 210 4$d©2000 215 $a1 online resource (342 pages) 225 0 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4794-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIllustration Credits --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Traces and Shadows --$t2. The Deaths of Desire --$t3. The Pursuit of Pleasure --$t4. Memories of the Blind --$t5. Searching for Vincent --$t6. For an AIDS Aesthetics --$t7. Writing on Writing on ... --$t8. Partners in Writing --$t9. Ghost Writing --$tAfterword --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic for Le Monde from 1977-1985, Guibert was also the co-author (with Patrice Chéreau) of a film script, L'Homme Blessé, which won a César in 1984, and author of more than twenty-five books, eight of which have been translated into English.In this vibrant and unusual study, Ralph Sarkonak examines many intriguing aspects of Guibert's life and production: the connection between his books and his photography, his complex relationship with Roland Barthes and with his friend and mentor Michel Foucault (relationships that were at once literary, intellectual, and personal in each case); the ties between his writing and that of his contemporaries, including Renaud Camus, France's most prolific gay writer; and his development of an AIDS aesthetic. Using close textual analysis, Sarkonak tracks the convolutions of Guibert's particular form of life-writing, in which fact and fiction are woven into a corpus that evolves from and revolves around his preoccupations, obsessions, and relationships, including his problematic relationship with his own body, both before and after his HIV-positive diagnosis.Guibert's work is a brilliant example of the emphasis on disclosure that marks recent queer writing-in contrast to the denial and cryptic allusion that characterized much of the work by gay writers of previous generations. Yet, as Sarkonak concludes, Guibert treats the notions of falsehood and truth with a postmodern hand: as overlapping constructs rather than mutually exclusive ones - or, to use Foucault's expression, as "games with truth." 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French$2bisacsh 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. 676 $a43/.914 700 $aSarkonak$b Ralph$f1949-$0176310 712 02$aAssociation of Canadian University Presses. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780657203321 996 $aAngelic echoes$93771853 997 $aUNINA