{"product_id":"to-the-friend-who-did-not-save-my-life","title":"To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (Semiotext(e) \/ Native Agents)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by Gallimard in 1990, \u003ci\u003eTo the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life\u003c\/i\u003e describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. Guibert chronicles three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life as, in the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, describing the progression of the disease and recording the reactions of his many friends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel scandalized the French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. \u003ci\u003eTo the Friend\u003c\/i\u003e became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. Guibert continued to document the daily experiences of his body in a series of novels and diaries, mostly published posthumously. \u003ci\u003eTo the Friend\u003c\/i\u003e has since attained a cult following for its intimate and candid tone, its fragmented and slippery form. As Edmund White observed, “[Guibert's] very taste for the grotesque, this compulsion to offend, finally affords him the necessary rhetorical panache to convey the full, exhilarating horror of his predicament.” In his struggle to piece together a language suited to his suffering, Hervé Guibert catapulted himself into notoriety and sealed his reputation for uncompromising, transgressive prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50963888406816,"sku":"9781635901238","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781635901238.jpg?v=1764005375","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/to-the-friend-who-did-not-save-my-life","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}