Emmanuel Carrere

New stuff from Picador this month. This is the one my wife gravitated to: Lives Other Than My Own, by Emmanuel Carrere. Blurb: 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 Carrère, who manages to find consolation and even joy as he immerses himself in lives other than his own. The...Read Full Story

Emmanuel Carrère is known as “The Stephen King of France” but somehow I fail to see the comparison. First of all, Carrère is a much better writer than King and secondly, there seems to be nothing in common with their styles, or even subject matter. Then again, perhaps these two particular short novels, contained in this one volume, are different from his other books, I don’t know. To me, a more fair comparison would be Kafka or Borges, at least in tone and/or subject matter. I enjoyed these...Read Full Story

At Three Percent's Read This Next, I found Emmanuel Carrère, previously mentioned in this blog, explaining what a chronicle is — except that, lacking the term, he calls it a non-fiction novel, a la Truman Capote: I write what Truman Capote called “non-fiction novels” and often, as you say, deeply personal non-fiction novels, which means I use all the tools and the tricks of fiction-writing, but on documentary material. I have nothing ideological against fiction, I enjoy reading...Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is about Emmanuel Carrere. Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article!Read Full Story

The aforementioned Emmanuel Carrère has won the sales-boosting Renaudot prize with his latest chonicle, which is about the Russian activist Limonov.Read Full Story