In April, the Albertine Book Club will discuss To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale, and published by Semiotext(e).

A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator’s experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.

First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life 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.

Albertine Members will receive a Zoom invitation to join this book club session via email.

The Albertine Book Club is free and open to Albertine Constellation members only. For more information on how to become an Albertine member, click here.