Mausoleum of Lovers
Author: Hervé Guibert
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781937658229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert's arresting journals
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Author: Hervé Guibert
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781937658229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert's arresting journals
Author: Roy Widing
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780615630564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Whispers from the Tomb begins with the accidental discovery of an opulent mausoleum opened to the public just once a year. Inside are two enormous marble sarcophagi standing side-by-side for more than half a century. We learn the deceased man is a wealthy businessman who immigrates to the United States in his youth. But less is known about the mysterious woman next to him. Digging back in time yields tantalizing clues."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Ben Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-02-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780312978020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe fell in love with her at first sight--but their romance didn't begin until after she died.
Author: Herve Guibert
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1584351993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love. In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... —from Crazy for Vincent Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate “monster” of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0809066890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest." Jonathan Culler
Author: Tim Hetherington
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781884167737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntrepid journalist considers power's corrosion, evades execution, and walks on the wild side of war-torn Africa.
Author: Daniel Summerhill
Publisher:
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781933880914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean's falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel Summerhill's sophomore collection grabs fate by the throat and confronts it. What does it mean to continue living when your friends are dying beside you? This collection melds an exploration of spirituality and rebellion with Black tradition. Summerhill's poems invite the reader near in order to self-excavate and explore tones of loss, love, and light.
Author: Nathalie Stephens
Publisher: BookThug
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 0973974265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This text explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead an altogether different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and in turn transform desire (consequence). Suggesting that one body conceals another, JE NATHANAEL lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes."--Small Press Distribution.
Author: Douglas A. Martin
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the sleepy college town of Athens, Georgia, a young man goes off to college to bed the luminous local rock star. From his working class family to a world of rich vicarious living, Martin's story is told in sparse, lyric prose that lingers with beauty but doesn't waste a moment. In this alternative bildungsroman, the unspoken relationship soon distorts under the toll of world tours and plush overseas hotel rooms. Love fails under celebrity's harsh distorting light, and the student loses his innocence.
Author: Hervé Guibert
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1782838694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White 'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'Brilliant' - Dazed 'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett 'Electrifying' - Colm Tóibín 'Dazzling' - Katherine Angel After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death. On publication in 1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.