Herve Guibert is perceived as France's best known author of AIDS narratives. His literary corpus includes, however, some 15 texts in which AIDS is not centrally or explicitly an issue. As well as novels and autofictions, Guibert has two collections of photographs to his name (Le Seul Visage, 1984 and Photographies, 1993), and he contributed to Le Monde's photography column for almost a decade. As the epigraphs below indicate, his L'Image fantome (Minuit, 1981) is a text in which photography—a passion of Guibert's—is not only established as a key thematic preoccupation but is also revealed to be intimately bound up both with writing and with desire. Additionally, it is a work which frames all of these things as imbricated within the practice and process of reading.
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