Letters to Eugène: Correspondence 1977-1987

Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.

In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, Mentir, and sent him his La mort propagande, 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.

A turning point occurred in 1982, when Hervé published "Lettre à un frère d’é...