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"By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death--as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats--at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness"--
"Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human"--
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AIDS (Disease), Authors, Complications, Cytomegalovirus infections, Diaries, Eye, Hospital patients, Infections, Patients, Cytomegaloviruses, Eye, diseases, Aids (disease), complications, MEDICAL / Ethics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Biography, Aids (disease), patients, biography, France, biography, Authors, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Literary, MEDICAL, EthicsPeople
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Cytomegalovirus: a hospitalization diary
2016, Fordham University Press
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Cytomegalovirus: a hospitalization diary
1996, University Press of America
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076180305X 9780761803058
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Cytomégalovirus: journal d'hospitalisation
1992, Editions du Seuil
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