Diaries. Selections. English

The mausoleum of lovers : journals 1976-1991 / Hervé Guibert ; translated by Nathanaël.

Brooklyn, New York : Nightboat Books, [2014]

©2014

571 pages ; 21 cm

BEIN Zac N1949 M448 2014: Paperbound.

Translation from the French of: Le mausolée des amants.

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.

Journals 1976-1991

English

September 24, 2014