Hervé Guibert was a French writer and photographer. A critic for Le Monde, he was the author of some thirty books, most notably To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which presents an intimate portrait of Michel Foucault, and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France toward AIDS. His journals, The Mausoleum of Lovers, spanning the last fifteen years of his life, were published posthumously and published in an English translation in 2014 (Nightboat Books).
Hervé Guibert
Articles by Hervé Guibert
Wednesday October 24
Mausoleum of Lovers
One by one I began to rip off in chips the made-up skin of the little mannequin, and this gives him leprosy by leaving the exposed white wax on his cheeks, it gives him a more bearable albino face.Thus my mother whom I just saw, and whose face I also found more bearable, who is moving toward a relaxed old age, no longer tense.