{"product_id":"hervelino-paperback","title":"Hervelino - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMathieu Lindon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Soon that was my nickname for Hervé, what with my habit of italianizing the names of my nearest and dearest ... Hervelino: that didn't make me think so much of Hervé as of us both. The word might not seem like much but it was him and it was me, he took it for himself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMathieu Lindon met the writer and photographer Hervé Guibert in 1978. The nickname Hervelino marked the start of their friendship, which was cemented a decade later by the years they both spent in Rome. Guibert was a pensionnaire at the Villa Médicis starting in 1987; Lindon became a fellow pensionnaire the next year, and the two would stay in Italy until 1990. These Roman years are at the heart of this \u003ci\u003eautobiographie à deux\u003c\/i\u003e that alternates between humor and melancholy. Guibert had just learned that he was HIV-positive and would die not long after returning to France and rising to fame with his searing masterpiece \u003ci\u003eTo the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life\u003c\/i\u003e--in which Lindon himself was a character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHervelino\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered. In recounting their time in Italy, Lindon contends with the impossibility of writing about Guibert: \"To write about Rome is to skip over everything I don't dare to write because it's so hard to make sense of Hervé.\" \u003ci\u003eHervelino\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of a singular friendship, and of the books read and shared by the friend who was loved and lost. As it closes with each inscription Guibert wrote for his friend Mathieu and with Lindon's present-day commentary below it, what remains are shards and fragments of a friendship sealed by illness and death, enshrined by literature and love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathieu Lindon is the author of nineteen books and a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLearning What Love Means\u003c\/i\u003e received the prestigious Prix Medici in France in 2011 and was the first of his works to appear in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158116765831,"sku":"9781635901702","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/538d504194226d49c56abfffd5c0e777.webp?v=1733256267","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hervelino-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}