Cytomegalovirus

A Hospitalization Diary

Hervé Guibert, David Caron, Todd Meyers , Clara Orban

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English

Fordham University Press
01 October 2015

Biography; Biography: literary; Medical ethics & professional conduct

Series: Forms of Living

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.

By: Hervé Guibert
Afterword by: Todd Meyers
Introduction by: David Caron
Translated by: Clara Orban
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9780823268573
ISBN 10: 0823268578
Series: Forms of Living
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 October 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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

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.

Reviews for Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary

In this medical humanities classic, the vulnerable yet unabashedly confrontational Herve Guibert dissects the solitary hospital body that he and unknown others have become exam after exam, drug after drug, humiliation after humiliation, scream after scream. The writer s urgent will to live and poignant desire to invent relations inside and outside the hospital are nothing short of breathtaking. --Joao Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival Like Roland Barthes s Mourning Diary, Herve Guibert s hospitalization diary speaks with moonlit clarity about the threshold between life and death; with this heartbreaking and exemplary book Guibert has earned literary immortality. --Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY To read Guibert s journal of faltering vision is to teeter at the portal to many worlds. He stands, like Saramago, between light and darkness, right and wrong, life and death. What he sees and hears there what he learns is timeless. This book is a gift. --David France, Director of How to Survive a Plague