TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD

To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambrenos failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guiberts 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 doc uments with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault.The fir st half of To Write As If Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance o f an onlin...[Read more]