# The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991

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- Authors: [Hervé Guibert](https://www.bookquiver.com/herve-guibert)
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- ISBN: 978-19-3765-822-9
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2014-06-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hovers between forms, in anticipation of its own disintegration.