Author: Amy Moran-Thomas

“The day I learned that it was cytomegalovirus that had attacked my eye, alone in the outpatient room, I saw a huge black spider come out of hole in the heating ducts.”[1] The hospital scenes described by Hervé Guibert often hinge on disquieting details like this, piercing minutiae that hover between the absurdly mundane and surreally existential. Although his …