Kirjahaku

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine...-from Crazy for VincentCrazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate "monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.

Stories that map the writer's artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.Hervé Guibert published twenty-five books before dying of AIDS in 1991 at age 36. An originator of French "autofiction" of the 1990s, Guibert wrote with aggressive candor, detachment, and passion, mixing diary writing, memoir, and fiction. Best known for the series of books he wrote during the last years of his life, chronicling his coexistence with illness, he has been a powerful influence on many contemporary writers.Written in Invisible Ink maps the writer's artistic development, from his earliest texts—fragmented stories of queer desire—to the unnervingly photorealistic descriptions in Vice and the autobiographical sojourns of Singular Adventures. Propaganda Death, his harsh, visceral debut, is included in its entirety. The volume concludes with a series of short, jewel-like stories composed at the end of his life. These anarchic and lyrical pieces are translated into English for the first time by Jeffrey Zuckerman.From midnight encounters with strangers to tormented relationships with friends, from a blistering sequence written for Roland Barthes to a tender summoning of Michel Foucault upon his death, these texts lay bare Guibert's relentless obsessions in miniature.

The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hovers between forms, in anticipation of its own disintegration.

Cytomegalovirus er den franske fotograf og forfatter Hervé Guiberts bidende og forpinte dagbog fra en indlæggelse på et parisisk hospital i 1991. På et tidspunkt, hvor han er ved at miste synet og bliver bevidst om sin forestående død, bliver dagbogen et stærkt vidnesbyrd om, hvordan hverdagen med en terminal sygdom opleves med al dens smerte, frygt og øjeblikke af fryd og klarsyn. Hvordan opretholder man sin værdighed, når kroppen sætter ud? Guibert insisterer på at være mere end patient i mødet med de forskellige plejere og nægter at gå til operationsstuen i hospitalets kittel. Cytomegalovirus er et vigtigt dokument fra aids-epidemiens historie og en rørende og original læseoplevelse. Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) var fotograf, journalist og forfatter. Han var hiv-smittet og døde som 36-årig efter et selvmordsforsøg. Han efterlod sig mere end tredive værker. På dansk er tidligere udkommet Til den ven der ikke reddede mit liv (1993) og Vild med Vincent (2023). Bogen har efterord af C.Y. Frostholm.

En novembernat falder Vincent, beruset og skæv, ud fra tredje sal. Han rejser sig op, sætter sig ind i sin bil og kører hjem. Om morgenen forsøger hans mor at ruske liv i ham, og få dage senere dør han i en hospitalsseng. Her starter ›Vild med Vincent‹, en autofiktiv dagbog af den franske forfatter og fotograf Hervé Guibert – og et gravskrift for den enigmatiske Vincent, der invaderede hans dagbøger, oplivede hans tilværelse og fornedrede ham i de seks år, de kendte hinanden.Politiken: “Et lille mesterværk,” fem hjerter. Anbefalet i Weekendavisen, Føljeton og POV med flere.Det er en bog om monomant begær; efter hans død går fortælleren baglæns gennem sine personlige noter for at genfinde Vincent og for at udrede sin fatale besættelse af ham – som aids-syg misbruger, dernæst som teenageren, han først forelskede sig i. Resultatet er en ustadig og uregerlig tekst, lige dele desperat eksperiment og sørgmodig elegi.Hervé Guibert er bedst kendt for de bøger, han skrev om sin egen aids-sygdom og udgav kort før sin død i 1991. I de seneste år har forfatterens bøger nydt en genopblomstring i en række engelsksprogede oversættelser, men det er første gang siden 1993, at han udkommer på dansk.Weekendavisen: ”En type tekst, der får sin særlige alvor og aura fra en blanding af det nøgterne og det melodramatiske.”Føljeton: ”Ubærligt smukke beskrivelser af kærlighed.”POV: ”Vild med Vincent er vidunderligt sorgfuld, og grim i sin sult.”