An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini

An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini

A slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century and a testament to the liberatory power of friendship.

‘This book is a small revolution in contemporary French writing’
— Collateral

‘Hélène Giannecchini never gives the impression of appropriating the stories of others.... [T]he quality of the author’s focus draws from the resources she mobilizes to write about friendship: her curiosity and sensitivity towards fragile lives are combined with an imagination that grants dignity to that which is forgotten by history, and allows us to talk about those ties that have no name.’
— En Attendant Nadeau

‘Hélène Giannecchini invites us to explore the thousand and one ways of composing an alternative genealogy. Essay, non-fiction or novel? We can’t decide and we don’t need to, because this book is so powerful.’
— L’Humanité

‘A compelling work, between investigation and narrative.’
— Le Monde

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.

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ISBN 13	9781804272220
ISBN 10	1804272221
Title	An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
Author	Hélène Giannecchini
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Year published	2026-03-26
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.