To Write as If Already Dead

by Kate Zambreno

Book Overview

To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herv Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault.

The first half of To Write As If Already Dead is a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231188455
• ISBN13: 9780231188456
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"