6 books that offer new perspectives on illness
Hervé Guibert began writing To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life in the last week of 1988; he has just been diagnosed with AIDS but is convinced he can survive. He plots the novel against the uncertain coordinates of this new virus: “I have a sense of the structure of this new book I’ve been harbouring within myself all these last weeks, but I don’t know how it will unfold in its entirety; I can imagine several endings, all of which fall for the moment under the heading of premonition or desire, but the whole truth is still hidden from me.”
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