{"title":"Hervé Guibert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHervé Guibert's\u003c\/strong\u003e works blend poignant storytelling with rich explorations of identity and desire. Readers can expect narratives that intertwine intimate personal experience with broader reflections on culture and society, often marked by a haunting, evocative prose style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the evocative tensions in \u003cem\u003eGhost Image\u003c\/em\u003e to the delicate complexities of relationships in \u003cem\u003eMy Manservant and Me\u003c\/em\u003e, Guibert's writing inhabits the space between fiction and memoir, inviting readers into a vivid, introspective world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"to-the-friend-who-did-not-save-my-life-by-herve-guibert-9781788168397","title":"To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn publication in 1990, the novel scandalised French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846859411692,"sku":"9781788168397","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18213013482824.jpg?v=1758924959"},{"product_id":"ghost-image-by-herve-guibert-9780226132341","title":"Ghost Image","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhost Image\u003c\/em\u003e is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes's \u003cem\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/em\u003e, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome essays talk of Guibert's parents and friends, some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning through them all are reflections on remembrance, narcissism, seduction, deception, death, and the phantom images that have been missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth a memoir and an exploration of the artistic process, \u003cem\u003eGhost Image\u003c\/em\u003e not only reveals Guibert's particular experience as a gay artist captivated by the transience and physicality of his media and his life, but also his thoughts on the more technical aspects of his vocation. In one essay, Guibert searches through a cardboard box of family portraits for clues—answers, or even questions—about the lives of his parents and more distant relatives. Rifling through vacation snapshots and the autographed images of long-forgotten film stars, Guibert muses, \"I don't even recognize the faces, except occasionally that of an aunt or great-aunt, or the thin, fair face of my mother as a young girl.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn other essays, he explains how he composes his photographs, and how—in writing—he seeks to escape and correct the inherent limits of his technique, to preserve those images lost to his technical failings as a photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith strains of Jean Genet and recurring themes that speak to the work of contemporary artists across a range of media, Guibert's \u003cem\u003eGhost Image\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, melancholic ode to existence and art forms both fleeting and powerful—a unique memoir at the nexus of family, memory, desire, and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424195592428,"sku":"9780226132341","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226132341.jpg?v=1774768924"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/herve-guibert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}