Crazy about Hervé. Correspondence concerning Hervé Guibert

Hervé Guibert, a writer, photographer and video artist who made his life (and his death from AIDS in 1991) the subject of his books, aroused a rare fascination during his lifetime. Thirty years after his death, this fascination endures, and Arnaud Genon, a specialist in this extraordinary writer, offers us here a fresh perspective on his work.

Haunted by this seductive and subversive figure, the researcher wrote a letter to 24 of Hervé Guibert’s close friends and admirers (his wife, one of his lovers, and some of his friends). In his letters, he explains his approach and asks each of them specific questions. All of them responded in a personal manner and in their own unique style, bringing to light a kaleidoscopic portrait of an author and a body of work unlike any other, whilst simultaneously providing previously unpublished sources for Guibertian studies.

It is therefore with curiosity, and at times emotion, that we enter the world of Hervé Guibert through the original texts by Christine Guibert, Philippe Mezescaze, Claire Legendre, Bernard Faucon, Laurent Herrou, Arthur Dreyfus, René de Ceccatty, Christophe Donner, Brigitte Ollier, Claire Devarrieux and many others.