To Write as if Already Dead (eBook)

Kate Zambreno (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54785-7 (ISBN)

Infos

To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve 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 novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection. The second half, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague, continues the meditation on friendship, solitude, time, mortality, precarity, art, and literature.Throughout this rigorous, mischievous, thrilling not-quite study, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates his methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert's work, an ode to his slippery, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks, as Foucault once did, "e;What is an author?"e; Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age, the ethics of friendship, and "e;the facts of the body"e;: illness, pregnancy, and death.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Rereadings
• Reihe/Serie: Rereadings
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54785-4 / 0231547854
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54785-7 / 9780231547857