#herve guibert

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Hervé Guibert (French, 1955-1991), Le fiancé, 1982

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Hervé Guibert. Thierry, 1979.

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Patrice Chéreau - The Wounded Man (1983)

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Herve Guibert (1981) Self Portrait Herve Guibert was a French writer and photographer. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, Guibert wrote three auto fictional novels and was the subject of a documentary, all documenting his daily life dealing with AIDS. He passed away on December 27, 1991 at the age of 36. He is considered to have had a considerable role in changing French public attitudes towards HIV/AIDS

Herve married Christine Seemuller in June of 1989 , the partner of his long time lover Thierry Jouno, so that his royalty income would eventually pass to her and her two children.

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L’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie

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Hervé Guibert

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Love Songs

Love Songs show at Maison Europeen de La Photographie 🤍

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all time fave gay movie got a bluray release i feel invincible atm

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Most important books for you this year?

Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Franco Bifo Berardi

Smoke gets in your eyes by Lutz Bacher

The Clip-on Method by Cady Noland

Negative Space by BR Yeager

The Family by Ed Sanders

Crazy for Vincent by Herve Guibert

currently reading RIP Tales by Jordan Stein it will also be important

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Hervé Guibert. Manteau sur canapé, n.d.

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With him, I lose all dignity; isn't that why I cling so intensely to him?

Hervé Guibert, Crazy for Vincent 

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I have a reputation as a pessimist. It's true that funny people annoy me and I can't stand them. Only impeccable souls have the right to cheerfulness - either children or old people.

Andrei Tarkovsky. Interview with Herve Guibert. Rome, 1983

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A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition.

The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Play boy, praised by Virginie Despentes for its writing that is at once “flippant and consumed by anxiety.”

In Love Me Tender, Debré goes on to further describe the consequences of that life-changing decision. Her husband, Laurent, seeks to permanently separate her from their eight-year old child. Vilified in divorce court by her ex, she loses custody of her son and is allowed to see him only once every two weeks for a supervised hour. Deprived of her child, Debré gives up her two-bedroom apartment and bounces between borrowed apartments, hotel rooms, and a studio the size of a cell. She involves herself in brief affairs with numerous women who vary in age, body type, language, and lifestyle. But the closer she gets to them, the more distant she feels. Apart from cigarettes and sex, her life is completely ascetic: a regime of intense reading and writing, interrupted only by sleep and athletic swimming. She shuns any place where she might observe children, avoiding playgrounds and parks “as if they were cluster bombs ready to explode, riddling her body with pieces of shrapnel.”  

Writing graphically about sex, rupture, longing, and despair in the first person, Debré's work is often compared with the punk-era writings of Guillaume Dustan and Herve Guibert, whose work she has championed. As she says of Guibert: “I love him because he says I and he's a pornographer. That seems to be essential when you write. Otherwise you don't say anything.” But in Love Me Tender, Debré speaks courageously of love in its many forms, reframing what it means to be a mother beyond conventional expectations.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635901740/love-me-tender/

Endorsements

Love Me Tender is a book unlike any other. It's a page-turner that tumbles forth like a horror story, albeit one punctuated by sex, swimming, injustice, and love. Committed to truth-telling, no matter how rough, but also intriguingly suspended in a cloud of unknowing and pain, Love Me Tender is a wry, original, agonizing book destined to become a classic of its kind. Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom

This is exhilarating. Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow

What remains when a person shears away—like sacrificing her gorgeous locks—the family, the "good breeding," the "brilliant career," and every pleasing role she was meant to play? In the case of Constance Debré, what remains is a deadpan, tensile thread of a voice: calm, Camusian, comic, stark, relentless, and totally hypnotic. Rachel Kushner, author of The Hard Crowd

Constance Debré's writing is entirely without ornament—direct, propulsive, and surpassingly honest. Her chronicle of day-to-day existence during a period of familial upheaval and sexual exploration is one in which every detail is rendered interesting, every episode surprising, by the author's uncanny ability to make understatement sparkle. Love Me Tender is just plain wonderful. Gary Indiana, author of Fire Season

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