WRITER

Hervé Guibert

1955 - 1991

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Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hervé Guibert has received more than 137,987 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Hervé Guibert is the 4,079th most popular writer (up from 4,191st in 2019), the 3,944th most popular biography from France (down from 3,828th in 2019) and the 503rd most popular French Writer.

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  • 140k

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  • 50.07

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

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  • 2.61

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Notable Works

Ghost image
Philosophy, Photographic criticism, Photography
1996
Le paradis
1992
Les Gangsters
1988
Vole mon dragon
1992
Le protocole compassionnel
1991
Le Mausolée des amants
2001
A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
AIDS (Disease), Fiction, Philosophers
Novel is the author's thinly disguised personal struggle with AIDS
1990
Le protocole compassionnel
Friendship, Patients, AIDS (Disease)
1991
L' homme au chapeau rouge
1992
Mes parents
Modern fiction, Literary Criticism, French
1986
Des aveugles
Blind, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
Both blind, Josette and Robert live together in the Institute - a home and school for the blind. One morning, Josette is called into the director's office where she is assailed by an odor she has never before encountered. It emanates from Taillegueur (Tiger) who the director has just hired as a masseur for the Institute. Brutal, massive, and savage, Taillegueur sets off a cycle of lust, infidelity, and revenge that culminates in a gruesome crime de passion. Like Nosferatu the Vampire and other strange films Josette and Robert enjoy, Blindsight is a tale of gothic horror. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. For the sighted reader this produces a strange, hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects.
1985
Le paradis
1992
Mes parents
Modern fiction, Literary Criticism, French
1986
L' homme au chapeau rouge
1992
Le paradis
1992
Des aveugles
Blind, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
Both blind, Josette and Robert live together in the Institute - a home and school for the blind. One morning, Josette is called into the director's office where she is assailed by an odor she has never before encountered. It emanates from Taillegueur (Tiger) who the director has just hired as a masseur for the Institute. Brutal, massive, and savage, Taillegueur sets off a cycle of lust, infidelity, and revenge that culminates in a gruesome crime de passion. Like Nosferatu the Vampire and other strange films Josette and Robert enjoy, Blindsight is a tale of gothic horror. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. For the sighted reader this produces a strange, hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects.
1985
Le protocole compassionnel
Friendship, Patients, AIDS (Disease)
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hervé Guibert ranks 4,079 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodor Plievier, Ameen Rihani, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Apollon Maykov. After him are Ryhor Baradulin, Maurice Genevoix, Lina Sandell, Alexander Kazbegi, Ana Maria Machado, and Karel Píč.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Hervé Guibert ranks 219. Before him are Enzo Ghinazzi, Dee Snider, Aleksandre Chivadze, Pino Daniele, Tibor Nyilasi, and Paul Simonon. After him are Teresa Ann Savoy, Sergei Mavrodi, Katsuyuki Kawachi, Américo Gallego, Walter Veltroni, and Ludo Coeck. Among people deceased in 1991, Hervé Guibert ranks 152. Before him are Tamara Khanum, Wilhelm Hahnemann, Dagmar Lange, Frank H. Netter, Domingo Tarasconi, and John King Fairbank. After him are Oreste Corbatta, Gustav Wetterström, Renato Rascel, Anita Traversi, Anton Yugov, and Ronald Lacey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé Guibert ranks 3,944 out of 6,770. Before him are Rémi Brague (1947), Michel Carré (1821), André Simon (1920), René Petit (1899), François Perrier (1833), and Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877). After him are Dominique Blanc (1956), Kingsley Coman (1996), Jean-Pierre Chevènement (1939), Maurice Genevoix (1890), Grégory Coupet (1972), and Benjamin Pavard (1996).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Hervé Guibert ranks 503. Before him are Rémy Belleau (1528), Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), Claude Aveline (1901), Michel Carré (1821), and Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877). After him are Maurice Genevoix (1890), Petrus Borel (1809), Jean de Brunhoff (1899), Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), Johann Fischart (1546), and Dominique Fernandez (1929).

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