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Learning What Love Means
Mathieu Lindon
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Description for Learning What Love Means
Paperback. Translator(s): Benderson, Bruce. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BM; DSBH; DSK; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author's life. I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. ... I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the period that changed my life, my cut-off from a fate leading to the precipice. In no specific way I'm grateful to Michel, ... Read more
A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author's life. I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. ... I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the period that changed my life, my cut-off from a fate leading to the precipice. In no specific way I'm grateful to Michel, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Autonomedia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781584351863
SKU
V9781584351863
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About Mathieu Lindon
Mathieu Lindon is the author of nineteen books and a staff writer for Liberacion. Learning What Love Means received the prestigious Prix Medici in France in 2011. It is the first of his works to appear in English. Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France's prestigious ... Read more
Reviews for Learning What Love Means
An important literary artefact of the counterculture's last wave, whose challenge to heteronormative power was directed against both Wester society at large and literature's rarefied hierarchies. -Times Literary Supplement The author and his confessions effervesce to the surface sleekly on every single page of the book with such skill that recognition only comes in hindsight, and it ... Read more