The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert s journals, kept from 1976 1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself a mausoleum of lovers comes to take its place. Thesensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes A Lover s Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hoversbetween forms, in anticipation of its own disintegration."