The long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert's arresting journalsThe 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. | The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991 by Herve Guibert, Paperback | Indigo Chapters