To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault.
The first half of To Write As If Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, ...
Table of Content
Part I. Disappearance
Part II. To Write as if Already Dead
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author
Kate Zambreno is the author of many acclaimed books, including
Drifts (2020),
Appendix Project (2019),
Screen Tests (2019),
Book of Mutter (2017), and
Her...
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