![]() ![]() Marine-based on the actor Isabelle Adjani-is dogged by rumors that she is HIV-positive after a mid-career debacle on the Paris stage. To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life comprises a series of portraits of friends and lovers whom illness and its specters torment throughout its one hundred chapters. Though he promises in the opening section of his book to become “one of the first people on earth to survive this deadly malady,” he would die the following year, on December 27, 1991, only a few days after his thirty-sixth birthday, author of an additional five extraordinary books, all of which would be published posthumously. ![]() Posters of his handsome face went up around Paris, transforming him into a symbol of the intense suffering of seropositive men and women at the time. Two years later, Éditions Gallimard published To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, a stark autobiographical book about his desperate effort to gain access to an experimental “AIDS vaccine.” To the Friend made Guibert both wealthy and famous, especially after an appearance on the French TV show Apostrophes. ![]() In 1988 the French novelist and photographer Hervé Guibert was diagnosed with HIV. Hervé Guibert at home, Paris, September 1987 ![]()
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