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Hervé Guibert

April 25, 2024

Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer.[1][2][3] The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS.[4] He was a close friend and lover of Michel Foucault.

Hervé Guibert
Born(1955-12-14)December 14, 1955
Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France
DiedDecember 27, 1991(1991-12-27) (aged 36)
Paris, France
OccupationWriter
NationalityFrench

Early life and career edit

Guibert was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, to a middle-class family and spent his early years in Paris, moving to La Rochelle from 1970 to 1973.

After working as a filmmaker and actor, he turned to photography and journalism. In 1978, he successfully applied for a job at France's evening paper Le Monde and published his second book, Les Aventures singulières (published by Éditions de Minuit). In 1984, Guibert shared a César Award for best screenplay with Patrice Chéreau for L'homme blessé. Guibert had met Chéreau in the 1970s during his theatrical years. He won a scholarship between 1987 and 1989 at Villa Medicis in Rome with his friend, writer Mathieu Lindon. He described these years in L'Incognito, published in 1989.

Guibert's writing style was inspired by the French writer Jean Genet and, later, by the work of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. Three of his lovers occupied an important place in his life and work: Thierry Jouno, director of the International Visual Theatre for the deaf in Paris, whom he met in 1976; Michel Foucault, whom he met in 1977; and Vincent Marmousez, a teenager of fifteen who inspired his novel Fou de Vincent (published in English as Crazy for Vincent).

For a time in the 1980s Guibert was a reader at the institute for young blind in Paris, Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, which led to his novel Des aveugles (published in English as Blindsight).

In January 1988 Guibert was diagnosed with AIDS.[5] From then on, he worked at recording what was left of his life. In June the following year, he married Christine, the partner of Thierry Jouno, so that his royalty income would eventually pass to her and her two children.[6] In 1990, Guibert publicly revealed his HIV status in his roman à clef À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (published in English as To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life). Nina Bouraoui in The Guardian described the book thus:

"In this book, he tells the story of his illness, AIDS, in the late 1980s. He tells of how life with the virus became an existential adventure, how it affected a generation, how it stole his friends and lovers, and how writing was for him a bulwark against death and destruction. It's the story of an era, a turning point – when AIDS transformed our relationship with desire and sexuality forever."[7]

Upon publication, Guibert immediately found himself the focus of media attention, featured in newspapers and appearing on several television talk shows, including Apostrophes, a literary program with a wide audience.[8]

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life was followed by two additional autofictional novels detailing the progress of his illness: Le Protocole compassionnel (1991; published in English as The Compassionate Protocol) and L'Homme au chapeau rouge (published in English as The Man in the Red Hat), which was released posthumously in January 1992. In his last work, Cytomégalovirus (1992), he describes a hospitalization in autumn 1991 and his increasing blindness caused by disease.[9]

Between July 1990 and February 1991, Guibert filmed scenes from his daily life living with AIDS, which became the film La Pudeur ou l'impudeur.[10] The film was produced by Pascale Breugnot and edited by Maureen Mazurek and was broadcast posthumously on French television. According to scholar Ross Chambers, the title (which can be roughly translated as "decorum or indecorum") refers to questions of how to present the realities of illness and death to an audience "readily shocked by what it does not wish to know about".[11]

In December 1991, Guibert attempted to end his life by taking digitalin. He died two weeks later, on December 27, 1991.[12][13]

In 2022, the journalist and writer Mathieu Lindon published Hervelino (Semiotext(e)). Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, the book chronicles the start of their friendship, along with Foucault, as well as the years they both spent in living in Rome.[14] Letters to Eugène: Correspondence 1977–1987 (Semiotext(e)) was published the same year. The book details correspondences between Guibert and Eugène Savitzkaya and is translated by Christine Pichini.[15]

Publications edit

  • La Mort propagande, R. Deforges, Paris, 1977
  • Zouc par Zouc, Balland, (1978)
  • Suzanne et Louise : roman-photo, Hallier, « Illustrations, » Paris, 1980
  • L'Image fantôme, Minuit, Paris, 1981
    • Ghost Image, translated by Robert Bonnono, Sun and Moon, 1996; University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Les Aventures singulières, Minuit, Paris, 1982
    • Singular Adventures, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, Semiotext(e), 2020
  • Les Chiens, Minuit, Paris, 1982
  • Voyage avec deux enfants, Minuit, Paris, 1982
  • Les Lubies d'Arthur, Minuit, Paris, 1983
    • Arthur's Whims, translated by Dana Lupo, Spurl, 2021
  • L'Homme blessé : scénario et notes, screenplay by Patrice Chéreau, Minuit, Paris, 1983[16]
  • Le Seul Visage, photographies, Minuit, Paris, 1984
  • Des aveugles, Gallimard, Paris, 1985 (Fénéon Prize, 1985)
  • Mes parents, Gallimard, Paris, 1986
    • My Parents, translated by Liz Heron, Serpent's Tail, 1994
  • "Vous m'avez fait former des fantômes", Gallimard, Paris, 1987
  • Les Gangsters, Minuit, Paris, 1988
    • The Gangsters, translated by Iain White, Serpent's Tail, 1991
  • Mauve le Vierge : nouvelles, Gallimard, Paris, 1988
    • Mauve the Virgin, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, Semiotext(e), 2020
  • L'Image de soi ou l'Injonction de son beau moment ?
  • Fou de Vincent, Minuit, Paris, 1989
    • Crazy for Vincent, translated by Christine Pichini, Semiotext(e), 2017
  • L'Incognito: roman, Gallimard, Paris, 1989
    • Incognito, translated by Patricia Roseberry, Broadwater House, 1999
  • À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie, Gallimard, Paris, 1990
    • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, translated by Linda Coverdale, Serpent's Tail, 1993; Semiotext(e), 2020[7]
  • Le Protocole compassionnel, Gallimard, Paris, 1991
    • The Compassion Protocol, translated by James Kirkup, Braziller, 1994
  • La Mort propagande : et autres textes de jeunesse, R. Deforges, Paris, 1991
  • Mon valet et moi : roman cocasse, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1991
    • My Manservant and Me: Madcap Novel, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Nightboat, 2022
  • Vice, photographies de l'auteur, J. Bertoin, Paris, 1991
    • Vice, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, Semiotext(e), 2020
  • L'Homme au chapeau rouge, Gallimard, Paris, 1992
    • The Man in the Red Hat, translated by James Kirkup, Quartet, 1995
  • Cytomégalovirus, journal d'hospitalisation, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1992
    • Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary, translated by Clara Orban, University Press of America, 1996; Fordham University Press, 2015
  • Le Paradis, Gallimard, Paris, 1992
    • Paradise, translated by James Kirkup, Quartet, 1996
  • Photographies, Gallimard, Paris, 1993
  • Vole mon dragon : théâtre, Gallimard, « Le manteau d'Arlequin », Paris, 1994
  • La piqûre d'amour : et autres textes ; suivi de La chair fraîche, Gallimard, Paris, 1994
    • The Sting of Love, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, Semiotext(e), 2020
  • Enquête autour d'un portrait : sur Balthus, preface by Éric de Chassey, Les Autodidactes, Paris, 1997
  • Lettres d'Égypte : du Caire à Assouan, 19.., photographies de Hans Georg Berger, Actes Sud, « Voir et dire », Arles, 1995
  • La photo, inéluctablement : recueil d'articles sur la photographie, 1977-1985, Gallimard, Paris, 1999
  • Le Mausolée des amants : journal, 1976-1991, Gallimard, Paris, 2001
  • Articles intrépides. 1977-1985, Gallimard, Paris, 2008
  • Herve Guibert: Voices of the Self, Liverpool University Press 1999
  • Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, Semiotext(e), 2020[17]
  • Letters to Eugène: Correspondence 1977–1987, Semiotext(e), 2022

References edit

  1. ^ "When a Virus Becomes a Muse". The New Yorker. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Sehgal, Parul (8 June 2020). "A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ Durbin, Andrew. "Hervé Guibert: Living Without a Vaccine". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  4. ^ "How to Dissect God?: Hervé Guibert — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  5. ^ "6 books that offer new perspectives on illness". Dazed. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Christine Guibert". herve-guibert (in French). Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  7. ^ a b Bouraoui, Nina (16 September 2020). "Top 10 books of autofiction". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  8. ^ Chambers, Ross (1998). Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author. University of Michigan. p. 40. ISBN 0-472-10958-8.
  9. ^ "Cytomegalovirus". herve-guibert (in French). Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  10. ^ Artières, Philippe; Cugnon, Gilles (2003). "La Pudeur ou l'impudeur d'Hervé Guibert. Genèse d'« un des documentaires les plus bizarres »". Genesis (Manuscrits-Recherche-Invention). 21 (1): 49–73. doi:10.3406/item.2003.1257.
  11. ^ Chambers, Ross (Fall 1997). "The Suicide Experiment: Hervé Guibert's AIDS Video, "La Pudeur ou l'impudeur."". L'Esprit Créateur. 37 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 78 – via JSTOR.
  12. ^ "L'écrivain-photographe : épisode • 7/4 du podcast Hervé Guibert". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Herve Guibert, French Novelist, 36". New York Times. 29 December 1991. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  14. ^ "Hervelino". MIT Press. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Letters to Eugène". MIT Press. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Patrice Chéreau obituary". The Guardian. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Hervé Guibert's 'Dreadful Books'". The Gay & Lesbian Review. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

Further reading edit

  • Lucas, Julian (20 September 2021). "Death sentences : Hervé Guibert in the kingdom of the sick". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (29): 65–68.[a]

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Notes
  1. ^ Online version is titled "When a virus becomes a muse".

External links edit

  • herveguibert.net, a website in French devoted to Guibert
  • Hervé Guibert at IMDb

April 25, 2024
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Herve Guibert news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Herve Guibert 14 December 1955 27 December 1991 was a French writer and photographer 1 2 3 The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV AIDS 4 He was a close friend and lover of Michel Foucault Herve GuibertBorn 1955 12 14 December 14 1955Saint Cloud Hauts de Seine FranceDiedDecember 27 1991 1991 12 27 aged 36 Paris FranceOccupationWriterNationalityFrench Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Publications 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksEarly life and career editGuibert was born in Saint Cloud Hauts de Seine to a middle class family and spent his early years in Paris moving to La Rochelle from 1970 to 1973 After working as a filmmaker and actor he turned to photography and journalism In 1978 he successfully applied for a job at France s evening paper Le Monde and published his second book Les Aventures singulieres published by Editions de Minuit In 1984 Guibert shared a Cesar Award for best screenplay with Patrice Chereau for L homme blesse Guibert had met Chereau in the 1970s during his theatrical years He won a scholarship between 1987 and 1989 at Villa Medicis in Rome with his friend writer Mathieu Lindon He described these years in L Incognito published in 1989 Guibert s writing style was inspired by the French writer Jean Genet and later by the work of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard Three of his lovers occupied an important place in his life and work Thierry Jouno director of the International Visual Theatre for the deaf in Paris whom he met in 1976 Michel Foucault whom he met in 1977 and Vincent Marmousez a teenager of fifteen who inspired his novel Fou de Vincent published in English as Crazy for Vincent For a time in the 1980s Guibert was a reader at the institute for young blind in Paris Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles which led to his novel Des aveugles published in English as Blindsight In January 1988 Guibert was diagnosed with AIDS 5 From then on he worked at recording what was left of his life In June the following year he married Christine the partner of Thierry Jouno so that his royalty income would eventually pass to her and her two children 6 In 1990 Guibert publicly revealed his HIV status in his roman a clef A l ami qui ne m a pas sauve la vie published in English as To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Nina Bouraoui in The Guardian described the book thus In this book he tells the story of his illness AIDS in the late 1980s He tells of how life with the virus became an existential adventure how it affected a generation how it stole his friends and lovers and how writing was for him a bulwark against death and destruction It s the story of an era a turning point when AIDS transformed our relationship with desire and sexuality forever 7 Upon publication Guibert immediately found himself the focus of media attention featured in newspapers and appearing on several television talk shows including Apostrophes a literary program with a wide audience 8 To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life was followed by two additional autofictional novels detailing the progress of his illness Le Protocole compassionnel 1991 published in English as The Compassionate Protocol and L Homme au chapeau rouge published in English as The Man in the Red Hat which was released posthumously in January 1992 In his last work Cytomegalovirus 1992 he describes a hospitalization in autumn 1991 and his increasing blindness caused by disease 9 Between July 1990 and February 1991 Guibert filmed scenes from his daily life living with AIDS which became the film La Pudeur ou l impudeur 10 The film was produced by Pascale Breugnot and edited by Maureen Mazurek and was broadcast posthumously on French television According to scholar Ross Chambers the title which can be roughly translated as decorum or indecorum refers to questions of how to present the realities of illness and death to an audience readily shocked by what it does not wish to know about 11 In December 1991 Guibert attempted to end his life by taking digitalin He died two weeks later on December 27 1991 12 13 In 2022 the journalist and writer Mathieu Lindon published Hervelino Semiotext e Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman the book chronicles the start of their friendship along with Foucault as well as the years they both spent in living in Rome 14 Letters to Eugene Correspondence 1977 1987 Semiotext e was published the same year The book details correspondences between Guibert and Eugene Savitzkaya and is translated by Christine Pichini 15 Publications editLa Mort propagande R Deforges Paris 1977 Propaganda Death translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 Zouc par Zouc Balland 1978 Suzanne et Louise roman photo Hallier Illustrations Paris 1980 L Image fantome Minuit Paris 1981 Ghost Image translated by Robert Bonnono Sun and Moon 1996 University of Chicago Press 2014 Les Aventures singulieres Minuit Paris 1982 Singular Adventures translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 Les Chiens Minuit Paris 1982 Voyage avec deux enfants Minuit Paris 1982 Les Lubies d Arthur Minuit Paris 1983 Arthur s Whims translated by Dana Lupo Spurl 2021 L Homme blesse scenario et notes screenplay by Patrice Chereau Minuit Paris 1983 16 Le Seul Visage photographies Minuit Paris 1984 Des aveugles Gallimard Paris 1985 Feneon Prize 1985 Blindsight translated by James Kirkup Quartet 1995 Mes parents Gallimard Paris 1986 My Parents translated by Liz Heron Serpent s Tail 1994 Vous m avez fait former des fantomes Gallimard Paris 1987 Les Gangsters Minuit Paris 1988 The Gangsters translated by Iain White Serpent s Tail 1991 Mauve le Vierge nouvelles Gallimard Paris 1988 Mauve the Virgin translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 L Image de soi ou l Injonction de son beau moment Fou de Vincent Minuit Paris 1989 Crazy for Vincent translated by Christine Pichini Semiotext e 2017 L Incognito roman Gallimard Paris 1989 Incognito translated by Patricia Roseberry Broadwater House 1999 A l ami qui ne m a pas sauve la vie Gallimard Paris 1990 To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life translated by Linda Coverdale Serpent s Tail 1993 Semiotext e 2020 7 Le Protocole compassionnel Gallimard Paris 1991 The Compassion Protocol translated by James Kirkup Braziller 1994 La Mort propagande et autres textes de jeunesse R Deforges Paris 1991 Mon valet et moi roman cocasse Editions du Seuil Paris 1991 My Manservant and Me Madcap Novel translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Nightboat 2022 Vice photographies de l auteur J Bertoin Paris 1991 Vice translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 L Homme au chapeau rouge Gallimard Paris 1992 The Man in the Red Hat translated by James Kirkup Quartet 1995 Cytomegalovirus journal d hospitalisation Editions du Seuil Paris 1992 Cytomegalovirus A Hospitalization Diary translated by Clara Orban University Press of America 1996 Fordham University Press 2015 Le Paradis Gallimard Paris 1992 Paradise translated by James Kirkup Quartet 1996 Photographies Gallimard Paris 1993 Vole mon dragon theatre Gallimard Le manteau d Arlequin Paris 1994 La piqure d amour et autres textes suivi de La chair fraiche Gallimard Paris 1994 The Sting of Love translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 Enquete autour d un portrait sur Balthus preface by Eric de Chassey Les Autodidactes Paris 1997 Lettres d Egypte du Caire a Assouan 19 photographies de Hans Georg Berger Actes Sud Voir et dire Arles 1995 La photo ineluctablement recueil d articles sur la photographie 1977 1985 Gallimard Paris 1999 Le Mausolee des amants journal 1976 1991 Gallimard Paris 2001 The Mausoleum of Lovers translated by Nathanael Nightboat 2014 Articles intrepides 1977 1985 Gallimard Paris 2008 Herve Guibert Voices of the Self Liverpool University Press 1999 Written in Invisible Ink Selected Stories Semiotext e 2020 17 Letters to Eugene Correspondence 1977 1987 Semiotext e 2022References edit When a Virus Becomes a Muse The New Yorker 11 September 2020 Retrieved 19 November 2021 Sehgal Parul 8 June 2020 A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 19 November 2021 Durbin Andrew Herve Guibert Living Without a Vaccine The New York Review of Books Retrieved 19 November 2021 How to Dissect God Herve Guibert Mousse Magazine and Publishing www moussemagazine it 13 October 2020 Retrieved 27 November 2021 6 books that offer new perspectives on illness Dazed 31 December 2020 Retrieved 27 November 2021 Christine Guibert herve guibert in French Retrieved 12 January 2024 a b Bouraoui Nina 16 September 2020 Top 10 books of autofiction The Guardian Retrieved 26 November 2021 Chambers Ross 1998 Facing It AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author University of Michigan p 40 ISBN 0 472 10958 8 Cytomegalovirus herve guibert in French Retrieved 12 January 2024 Artieres Philippe Cugnon Gilles 2003 La Pudeur ou l impudeur d Herve Guibert Genese d un des documentaires les plus bizarres Genesis Manuscrits Recherche Invention 21 1 49 73 doi 10 3406 item 2003 1257 Chambers Ross Fall 1997 The Suicide Experiment Herve Guibert s AIDS Video La Pudeur ou l impudeur L Esprit Createur 37 3 The Johns Hopkins University Press 78 via JSTOR L ecrivain photographe episode 7 4 du podcast Herve Guibert France Culture in French Retrieved 13 January 2024 Herve Guibert French Novelist 36 New York Times 29 December 1991 Retrieved 29 August 2010 Hervelino MIT Press Retrieved 24 July 2023 Letters to Eugene MIT Press Retrieved 24 July 2023 Patrice Chereau obituary The Guardian 8 October 2013 Retrieved 26 November 2021 Herve Guibert s Dreadful Books The Gay amp Lesbian Review 27 October 2020 Retrieved 27 November 2021 Further reading editLucas Julian 20 September 2021 Death sentences Herve Guibert in the kingdom of the sick The Critics Books The New Yorker 97 29 65 68 a Notes Online version is titled When a virus becomes a muse External links editherveguibert net a website in French devoted to Guibert Herve Guibert at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Herve Guibert amp oldid 1218379689, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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