The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991

by Hervé Guibert

The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself -- a mausoleum of lovers -- comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hovers between forms, in anticipation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658228
• ISBN13: 9781937658229
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"