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.
Author: Hervé Guibert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 05/01/2014
Pages: 584
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781937658229
Language: English
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