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The Adversary See 0-312-42060-9: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

38 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

Picador USA, 2004

Unbelievably Compelling! Highly Recommended!
Jean-Cluade Romand... a man, a monster, a mystery. Romand expended an ordinate amount of energy fabricating the kind of image and existence he longed to have, but could never quite realize. From a void, he fashioned a make-believe life. Romand spent decades deceiving his friends, college classmates, his wife and children, his parents, and himself. Obviously brilliant, had Romand expended even ...

La Moustache

2 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

French & European Pubns, 1987

Horrifying, yet not a horror novel
Emmanuel Carrere has done the seemingly impossible with this slim novel. He has written a horrifying tale, yet it is not a horror novel. What elevates it above the level of the average paperback horror story is both the quality of the writing and calm, almost stately pace of the action. Just 28 when he wrote "La Moustache," Carrere writes with assurance and control. The story is simple. A ...

Positif 50 Years: Selected writings from the French Film Journal

1 review
Vincent Amiel, Robert Benayoun, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

An enjoyable, entertaining read
This is a nice little collection of writings from the influential French film journal, Positif. There are a good range of articles all the way from Neo-realism and new wave to a review of Lynch's "Lost Highway". The book is aimed at popular consumption with it's sprinkling of photos and its handsome layout, as opposed to a more scholarly anthology of critical writings. This book is perfect for ...

Two by Carrere: Class Trip/the Mustache

13 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Perfect Book
This review is for Class Trip: I found this book quite accidentally. I am thrilled that I did because it is an excellent book and so completely beautifully written (and translated). Carrere is a wonderful writer. His character, Nicolas, is so amazingly realistic. His thoughts, the way his mind wanders from thought to idea, his lack of confidence, his lying without explanation. All this makes ...

Class Trip & The Mustache

2 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

Picador, 2003

Perfect Book
This review is for Class Trip: I found this book quite accidentally. I am thrilled that I did because it is an excellent book and so completely beautifully written (and translated). Carrere is a wonderful writer. His character, Nicolas, is so amazingly realistic. His thoughts, the way his mind wanders from thought to idea, his lack of confidence, his lying without explanation. All this makes ...

L'Adversaire

1 review
Emmanuel Carrere

Editions Gallimard, 2001

Le Mensonge de 18 ans
La règle est que pour valider tous mensonges, il faut en faire 3 autres. Imaginer de faire cela pendant 18 ans! C'est le sujet de ce bouquin. Un homme prisonnier d'un esprit trouble dans un monde visiblement normal. Le masque de tromperie qui, une fois révélé, se finalise en massacre. Il faut nécessairement voir le film puisque l'acteur, Daniel Auteuil, caractérise le personnage brillamment. ...

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Inside the Mind of Philip K. Dick

18 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Carrere provides non-judgmental look at Dick's life
I Am Alive and You are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere has been on my books to read list for awhile. I have a weakness for biographies and autobiographies of writers, and if it's a writer who I all but worship as a god, well, all the better. Philip K. Dick is one of those writers who, once I discovered all those years ago with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, felt compelled to read every book I ...

The Adversary
Emmanuel Carrere

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001

The shocking true story of a respectable doctor and 18 years of lies and five murders. The book reveals the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

Class Trip

7 reviews
Emmanuel Carrere

Quartet Books, 1997

Perfect little book
I found this book quite accidentally. I am thrilled that I did because it is an excellent book and so completely beautifully written (and translated). Carrere is a wonderful writer. His character, Nicolas, is so amazingly realistic. His thoughts, the way his mind wanders from thought to idea, his lack of confidence, his lying without explanation. All this makes Nicolas compelling and ...

Amok.
Emmanuel Carrere

Fischer (S.), Frankfurt, 2001

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