Cytomegalovirus - Hervé Guibert

Cytomegalovirus

A Hospitalization Diary

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
96 Seiten
2015
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-6856-6 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Hervé 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.

Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University-Shanghai. He is the author of The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2015
Reihe/Serie Forms of Living
Einführung David Caron
Nachwort Todd Meyers
Übersetzer Clara Orban
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8232-6856-X / 082326856X
ISBN-13 978-0-8232-6856-6 / 9780823268566
Zustand Neuware
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