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A slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century and a testament to the liberatory power...
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A slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century and a testament to the liberatory power of friendship.
A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed 'marginal' into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and offers a moving testament to its liberatory power.
Author: Hélène Giannecchini
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781804272220
About the Author
Hélène Giannecchini is a writer, curator and lecturer on history and contemporary art theory at the University of Lille. She is the author of Une image peut-être vraie (2014, published in English as Alix Cléo Roubaud: A Portrait In Fragments, tr. Thea Petrou), Voir de ses propres yeux (2020) and An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (2024), all published in France by Éditions du Seuil. Her current research focusses on the visual history of gender minority groups in the latter half of the twentieth century. Hélène Giannecchini is based in Paris, France. Anna Moschovakis is a poet, novelist and translator. Her translation of David Diop's novel At Night All Blood Is Black won the 2021 International Booker Prize. Her most recent book is the novel An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth and other books include: Participation; Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love; They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This; and, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake. She is a longtime member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse and a co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use space dedicated to arts, agriculture, ecology, and action in Delhi, New York. Anna Moschovakis is based in New York.
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