Zambreno, Kate
To Write As If Already Dead (Rereadings)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231188456
- author:
- Zambreno, Kate
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.3 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Books & Reading,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Kate Zambreno's To Write As If Already Dead is a diaristic exploration of her failed attempts to write about Hervé Guibert's work. This transgressive study circles around Guibert's own writing, particularly his novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which documents his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS. The book consists of two parts: a novella that searches for an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection, and a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague. Throughout, Guibert's ghostly presence lingers, offering a glimpse into his slippery genre. Zambreno investigates Guibert's methods by adopting them, infusing this question with new urgency: what is an author in the age of the internet? This inquiry explores the anxieties of friendship, ethics, and "the facts of the body": illness, pregnancy, and death.
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