My Life as a Russian Novel - Softcover

Carrère, Emmanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312569300 ISBN 13: 9780312569303

Publisher: Picador, 2011

Synopsis

From the master of psychological suspense and the author of "The Adversary" comes 'a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion' (Le Monde). Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, "My Life as a Russian Novel" traces Carrere'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, Carrere weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force - this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact.

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Review:

"A captivating memoir that reads like a literary erotic-suspense novel." --The Boston Globe

"Carrère brings the whole to sharp focus with a few jarring truths and a moment of great beauty. You leave its last pages with a deep appreciation for life." --The Washington Post

"An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love." --The Times (London)

"Recalls Hitchcock and Calvino." --Details

"Brims with ideas and incidents...Gripping and fascinating, an intimate portrait of a complicated man's inner life and his struggles to find some kind of happiness and fulfillment." --The Guardian (London)

"Even by the high standards set by his earlier books, Emmanuel Carrère's My Life as A Russian Novel is a masterpiece, a searingly candid, breathtakingly beautiful exploration of territories both far and near: Russia and France; the past and the present; brutality and love; the inscrutable desires of the other and the often equally unfathomable motivations of the self. This is an unforgettable book from the most original, exciting, and important figure in contemporary French literature." --Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

"Emmanuel Carrère has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles." --Le Monde

"An exceptional book in which the adversary, this time, is Carrère himself, revealed in a lucid, unflinching analysis.... Remarkable." --Le Figaro

About the Author:

Emmanuel Carr re, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of Class Trip, The Mustache, and The Adversary, a New York Times Notable Book. Carr re lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312569300
• ISBN 13: 9780312569303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292