Cytomegalovirus
Subtitle: a hospitalization diary
By: Hervé Guibert ; introduction by David Caron ; afterword by Todd Meyers ;translated by Clara Orban
Edition: First Fordham University Press edition.
Series: Forms of living
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780823268566; 9780823268573
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); Diaries; MEDICAL / Ethics; Infections; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Cytomegalovirus infections; Patients; Complications; Authors; Eye; Biography; Hospital patients
Work titles: Cytomegalovirus
Description: "By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death--as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats--at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed.  This new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness"--

"Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Respect, One Dessert Spoon at a Time; title: David Caron; title: Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary; title: Afterword: Remainders; title: Todd Meyers; title: Translator's Note.