A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning
Mavrikakis, Catherine / Stephens, Nathalie
Herve, the friend with AIDS, his lover, Herve, also afflicted, Herve the hairdresser, Herve next door who has defenestrated himself: in "A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning" the narrator confronts the deaths of so many friends, all named Herve. But the dead cannot be buried so easily, they live on, spectres haunting her, as the cumulative effect of all her Herves becomes a multifaced Death that simultaneously angers, saddens, cheers and confuse...