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To Write as if Already Dead/ (Record no. 4969)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	01914nam a2200169Ia 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	4969
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	250217s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780231188456
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Zambreno, Kate
9 (RLIN)	7199
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	To Write as if Already Dead/
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Kate Zambreno
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Columbia University Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	176p;
Dimensions	20x13cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. The first half of To Write As If Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection. The second half, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague, continues the meditation on friendship, solitude, time, mortality, precarity, art, and literature. Throughout this rigorous, mischievous, thrilling not-quite study, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates his methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert’s work, an ode to his slippery, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks, as Foucault once did, “What is an author?” Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age, the ethics of friendship, and “the facts of the body”: illness, pregnancy, and death.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note	English
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	PN3311-3503 Literature (General)- Prose. Prose Fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	Book

Holdings
Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Price effective from	Koha item type
				Language and Literature	SAF Reference Library	SAF Reference Library	02/17/2025	SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei		PN3311-3503 260.228	4969	02/17/2025	02/17/2025	Book
				Language and Literature	SAF Reference Library	SAF Reference Library	02/17/2025	SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei		PN3311-3503 260.228		02/17/2025	02/17/2025	Book