{"product_id":"cytomegalovirus-a-hospitalization-diary-9780823268573","title":"Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHervé Guibert \u003c\/strong\u003e(1955-91) was a French journalist and photographer before becoming a prominent literary figure in the early 1980s. He published nearly two dozen works in his lifetime, several of which deal with HIV\/AIDS. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Caron \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTodd Meyers\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at Wayne State University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClara Orban\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor and Chair of French and Italian at DePaul University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461347414290,"sku":"9780823268573","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df165c8e-4d7a-4995-a427-32e1665566c9.jpg?v=1730065043","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cytomegalovirus-a-hospitalization-diary-9780823268573","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}