ABSTRACT
Brun Anne Herve Guibert explains the body and AIDS. When he realised that he had AIDS and that his death would not be long in coming, writing became for him a genuine means of survival. The literary works of Herve Guibert can be defined as a written and pictorial description of the body and they evolved in parallel with his AIDS-related illness towards a display of the degeneration of his body turned into that of a martyr. A psychoanalytical approach to his final autobiographical writings shows how for a writer faced with the gradual decay of his body, the intrusion of new medical technologies and the certainty of his imminent end the sources of the creative process consist of making use in his writing of survival strategies in order to avoid death. When AIDS struck, that initial evocation of sexual pleasure in the body then moved towards a representation of the degeneration of his body that had become a martyr.
