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Guibert, Hervé --- Criticism and interpretation. --- French literature

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Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier's fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier's fiction that encompasses the writer's stated ambition to 'go beyond literature'.

Guibert, Hervé. --- Guibert, Hervé --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tournier, Michel --- تورنيي، ميشيل

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In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic for Le Monde from 1977-1985, Guibert was also the co-author (with Patrice Chéreau) of a film script, L'Homme Blessé, which won a César in 1984, and author of more than twenty-five books, eight of which have been translated into English.In this vibrant and unusual study, Ralph Sarkonak examines many intriguing aspects of Guibert's life and production: the connection between his books and his photography, his complex relationship with Roland Barthes and with his friend and mentor Michel Foucault (relationships that were at once literary, intellectual, and personal in each case); the ties between his writing and that of his contemporaries, including Renaud Camus, France's most prolific gay writer; and his development of an AIDS aesthetic. Using close textual analysis, Sarkonak tracks the convolutions of Guibert's particular form of life-writing, in which fact and fiction are woven into a corpus that evolves from and revolves around his preoccupations, obsessions, and relationships, including his problematic relationship with his own body, both before and after his HIV-positive diagnosis.Guibert's work is a brilliant example of the emphasis on disclosure that marks recent queer writing-in contrast to the denial and cryptic allusion that characterized much of the work by gay writers of previous generations. Yet, as Sarkonak concludes, Guibert treats the notions of falsehood and truth with a postmodern hand: as overlapping constructs rather than mutually exclusive ones - or, to use Foucault's expression, as "games with truth."

Guibert, Hervé --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Friends and associates.

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Écrivain, critique, photographe, cinéaste, lecteur, Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) n'a eu de cesse de questionner les images : celles des autres comme les siennes. Correspondant et chroniqueur au Monde, lecteur à l'Institut des jeunes aveugles, il mène en parallèle une enquête au coeur de son travail d'écriture fictionnelle, tant il est convaincu qu'on ne peut plus "écrire comme autrefois, du temps d'avant l'image photographique, télévisuelle, cinématographique" (L'image fantôme). Il joue avec les ficelles cachées du réel (aveuglement, incognito, faussaires, fictions, fantômes, etc.), sans jamais réduire le visuel au vu, pour donner tout son sens à la notion de visible. Etre fantasmagorie et documentaire, comment définir son écriture hybride ? Si les études consacrées à l'auteur de "A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie" sont nombreuses, on connait moins son oeuvre photographique. C'est ce chemin qu'emprunte le présent ouvrage en réunissant les contributions de spécialistes de l'oeuvre d'Hervé Guibert.

Critique photographique. --- Photographie. --- Guibert, Hervé, --- Critique et interprétation.

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In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic for Le Monde from 1977-1985, Guibert was also the co-author (with Patrice Chéreau) of a film script, L'Homme Blessé, which won a César in 1984, and author of more than twenty-five books, eight of which have been translated into English.In this vibrant and unusual study, Ralph Sarkonak examines many intriguing aspects of Guibert's life and production: the connection between his books and his photography, his complex relationship with Roland Barthes and with his friend and mentor Michel Foucault (relationships that were at once literary, intellectual, and personal in each case); the ties between his writing and that of his contemporaries, including Renaud Camus, France's most prolific gay writer; and his development of an AIDS aesthetic. Using close textual analysis, Sarkonak tracks the convolutions of Guibert's particular form of life-writing, in which fact and fiction are woven into a corpus that evolves from and revolves around his preoccupations, obsessions, and relationships, including his problematic relationship with his own body, both before and after his HIV-positive diagnosis.Guibert's work is a brilliant example of the emphasis on disclosure that marks recent queer writing-in contrast to the denial and cryptic allusion that characterized much of the work by gay writers of previous generations. Yet, as Sarkonak concludes, Guibert treats the notions of falsehood and truth with a postmodern hand: as overlapping constructs rather than mutually exclusive ones - or, to use Foucault's expression, as "games with truth."

Guibert, Hervé --- Criticism and interpretation --- Friends and associates --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. --- Guibert, Hervé --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Friends and associates.