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HIV Stories: The Archeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988. By JEAN-PIERRE BOULE. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2002. vii + 184 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 17.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-85323-568-6 (pbk 0-85323-578-3).
Following the publication of Jean-Pierre Boule's consideration of Herve Guibert's writing, and in particular of the interplay between truth, fiction, and falsehood in Guibert's 1990s AIDS texts (in Herve Guibert: Voices of the Self (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999)), Boule here turns his attention to what he calls the 'pre-history' of AIDS writing in France. Unearthing six very different texts from a key period in the French epidemic, Boule's contention is that while the writings under consideration are...
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