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Learning What Love Means by Mathieu Lindon - ISBN: 9781584351863
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Friendship with Foucault reshaped a life, offering lessons on love.

Learning What Love Means

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    240 pages

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    29 September 2017

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Summary

A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author’s life.

“I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. … I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the period that changed my life, my cut-off from a fate leading to the precipice. In no specific way I’m gratefu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781584351863
ISBN-10:1584351861
Author:Mathieu Lindon, Bruce Benderson
Publisher:Autonomedia
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:29 September 2017
Weight:370g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 17mm
Series:Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
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Critics Review

An important literary artefact of the counterculture’s last wave, whose challenge to heteronormative power was directed against both Wester society at large and literature’s rarefied hierarchies.

—Times Literary Supplement

The author and his confessions effervesce to the surface sleekly on every single page of the book with such skill that recognition only comes in hindsight, and it is only through hindsight that the most obvious claims and relationships become truly obvious.

—Lambda Literary

About The Author

Mathieu Lindon

Mathieu Lindon is the author of nineteen books and a staff writer for Liberacion. Learning What Love Means received the prestigious Prix Medici in France in 2011. It is the first of his works to appear in English.

Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian- Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony.

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