"La Moustache"--now a film directed by Emmanuel Carrere "What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?" asks "The Mustache"'s hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether. A metaphysical nightmare of t[...]
For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" ("The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for "The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrere follows Dick's strange odys[...]
On the Saturday morning of January ninth, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting.With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrère begins his exploration of the double life of a respect[...]
Who could have imagined Romand as a murderer? He was, after all, a noted doctor at the World Health Organization, a groundbreaking researcher with connections to international humanitarian figures, a financial wizard entrusted with his in-law's life savings, a loving son who called his parents every[...]
This is an unforgettable biography of the visionary grand master of science fiction, Philip K. Dick. Emmanuel Carrere follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink ligh[...]
In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman dies from cancer, leaving her husband and small children bereft. What links these two catastrophes is the presence of Emmanuel Carrere, who manages to find consolation and even[...]
An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal and the traps we set for ourselves. Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, "A Russian Novel" traces Carrere's pursuit of two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his fascination with a woman he loves but cannot [...]
Kirja venäjän kielellä.Ranskassa arvovaltaisen Prix Théophraste-Renaudot -palkinnon voittanut Limonov on puolifiktiivinen elämäkerta, joka kertoo Eduard Limonovin hengästyttävän monivaiheisesta elämästä. Limonov syntyi 1943 Venäjällä ja muutti kasvaessaan muotoaan huligaaniksi, runoil[...]
Ranskassa arvovaltaisen Prix Théophraste-Renaudot -palkinnon voittanut Limonov on puolifiktiivinen elämäkerta, joka kertoo Eduard Limonovin hengästyttävän monivaiheisesta elämästä. Limonov syntyi 1943 Venäjällä ja muutti kasvaessaan muotoaan huligaaniksi, runoilijaksi, pakolaiseksi, newy[...]