Letters to Eugene av Herve Guibert, Eugene Savitzkaya

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<b>Hervé Guibert''s incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.</b><br><br>In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, <i>Mentir</i>, and sent him his <i>La mort propagande</i>, which had just been published. In the following years, they exchanged the books they had written, read each other, appreciated each other. They saw each other rarely, however: one lived in Liège, the other Paris.<br> <br>A turning point occurred in 1982, when Hervé published "Lettre à un frère d’écriture," in which he declared to Eugène, "I love you through your writing." The tone had changed; Hervé, obsessed with his correspondent, wrote him increasingly incandescent letters. 1984 would, however, see the sudden extinguishing of that passion. A deep friendship replaced it, which found itself with new areas to explore: the adventure of publishing <i>L’Autre Journa