To Write As If Already Dead

To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert's methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of his work.

List of contents

Part I. Disappearance
Part II. To Write as if Already Dead
Acknowledgments
Notes

About the author

Kate Zambreno

Summary

To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of his work.

Additional text

This book absorbed me so deeply I left part of myself inside it.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Zambreno, Zambreno Kate
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780231188456
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18845-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Rereadings
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism