Emmanuel Carrère

The true story of a man who spun a web of lies around his life ventures into the mind of a psychotic murderer who managed to convince thousands of people that he was a successful, credentialed physician. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

A True Story of Monstrous Deception

The Adversary

« Limonov n’est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine ; idole de l’underground soviétique sous Brejnev ; clochard, puis valet de chambre d’un milliardaire à Manhattan ; écrivain branché à Paris ; soldat perdu dans les guerres des Balkans ; et maintenant, dans l’immense bordel de l’après-communisme en Russie, vieux chef charismatique d’un parti de jeunes desperados. Lui-même se voit comme un héros, on peut le considérer comme un salaud : je suspends pour ma part mon jugement. C’est une vie dangereuse, ambiguë : un vrai roman d’aventures. C’est aussi, je crois, une vie qui raconte quelque chose. Pas seulement sur lui, Limonov, pas seulement sur la Russie, mais sur notre histoire à tous depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ».

Limonov

Yoga

L'avversario

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his life threatens to topple into madness - a disturbing solution comes into view, taking us on a dramatic flight across the world. Translated by Lanie Goodman Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

The Moustache

From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrère, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grand-father helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft. Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two families—shattered and ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is nothing short of a literary miracle: a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, an intimate and reverent look at the extraordinary beauty and nobility of ordinary lives. Precise, sober, and suspenseful, as full of twists and turns as any novel, Lives Other Than My Own confronts terrifying catastrophes to illuminate the astonishing richness of human connection: a grandfather who thought he had found paradise—too soon—and now devotes himself to helping his neighbors rebuild their village; a husband so in love with his ailing wife that he carries her in his arms like a knight does his princess; and finally, Carrère himself, longtime chronicler of the tormented self, who unexpectedly finds consolation and even joy as he immerses himself in the lives of others.

A Memoir

Lives Other Than My Own

Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrore's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrore, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdomis his masterpiece.

The Kingdom

I baffi

A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented nonfiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: Theology, historiography, reportage, and memoir—among many others—are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, and intellect that has made Carrère one of our most distinctive and important literary voices today. 97,196 Words introduces Carrère's shorter work to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary texts written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrère's creative life, the book shows a remarkable mind at work. Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, 97,196 Words considers the divides between truth, reality, and our shared humanity, exploring remarkable events and eccentric lives, including Carrère's own.

Essays

97,196 Words

Chronicles the life of the science fiction master, literary icon, and author of more than fifty novels from his traumatic origins as the twin that lived, through his multiple marriages, drug odysseys, and tragic disintegration into madness.

A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

I Am Alive and You Are Dead

La settimana bianca

The Mustache

A raucous and brilliant anatomy of a breakdown by Emmanuel Carrère, one of our brightest and most surprising international writers. Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. Following the success of his latest novel, he goes on a rigorous ten-day Buddhist meditation retreat in search of clarity. But he’s also in search of material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. When he’s asked to leave the secluded retreat early and return to Paris, breaking the community’s cardinal rule, his life begins to unravel, along with his novel in progress. His marriage grinds to a halt, as does his episodic relationship with another woman. The catastrophic depression that follows will push him to the edge of sanity, leading him to a psychiatric hospital, where treatment includes ketamine and electroshock therapy. He escapes to Greece, taking solace in teaching young refugees to write—but still, he’s stalked by existential dread and the hollow sense that something has gone horribly wrong in the world, if not just in his own mind. A moving, wise, and funny account of madness, meditation, and mayhem, Yoga is a major book from “France’s greatest writer of nonfiction” (The New York Times Magazine). It’s a breakthrough work that shuns apathy and awakens us to ourselves, by a literary luminary.

"À un moment de ma vie, j'ai été chrétien. Cela a duré trois ans. C'est passé. Affaire classée, alors ? Il faut qu'elle ne le soit pas tout à fait pour que, vingt ans plus tard, j'aie éprouvé le besoin d'y revenir. Ces chemins du Nouveau Testament que j'ai autrefois parcourus en croyant, je les parcours aujourd'hui en romancier? en historien ? Disons en enquêteur."--Page [4] of cover.

Le royaume

V13 : c’est le nom de code du procès des attentats terroristes qui, le vendredi 13 novembre 2015, ont causé 130 morts au Stade de France, sur des terrasses de l’est parisien, dans la salle de concert du Bataclan. 14 accusés, 1 800 parties civiles, 350 avocats, un dossier haut de 53 mètres : ce procès hors norme a duré neuf mois, de septembre 2021 à juin 2022. Je l’ai suivi, du premier au dernier jour, pour l’hebdomadaire L’Obs. Expérience éprouvante, souvent bouleversante, fascinante même quand elle était ennuyeuse. Une traversée.

Vite che non sono la mia

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film project in the heart of Russia while also embarking on a new love affair back home in Paris. But soon enough, the diversion he seeks eludes him, intimacy proves too arduous, and Carrv®re is left peering into the dark mirror of his own life. Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrère's pursuit of two obsessions—the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrère weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, erotic tour de force—this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact.

My Life as a Russian Novel

A complex relationship and reckless alcohol consumption lead Carrère to a period of crisis; he found refuge in Christianity. Twenty years later, he conducts a wide search on the origins of Christianity in relation to the writings of Paul, along with the gospel of Luke, one of the Evangelist of the new faith that begun with a small Jewish sect.

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