Bøger af Emmanuel Carrere

Edvard Limonov hovedpersonen i den prisvindende franske forfatter manuskriptforfatter og filminstruktør Emmanuel Carrères nye roman er ikke en fiktiv figur men en nulevende person. Edvard Limonov (f. 1943) er en ukrainsk bølle tidligere dissident i Bresjnevs Sovjet forhenværende kammertjener for en milliardær på Manhattan han har siddet fængslet både for politiske forbrydelser og ganske almindelig kriminalitet og han blev udvist af Sovjetunionen helt tilbage i 1974. Han har levet i Paris og været populær på parnasset; han har været soldat på serbisk side under borgerkrigen på Balkan og i dag er han en af lederne af oppositionen mod regimet i Ukraine. Emmanuel Carrère fortæller her hans dramatiske historie. En blændende velskrevet velresearchet og særdeles underholdende roman om jerntæppetiden og hvad der fulgte af glasnost og perestrojka et fornemt portræt af den sammensatte hovedperson af hans land og hans tid. Romanen blev belønnet med tre litterære priser bl.a. den prestigefyldte Prix Renaudot 2011. Emmanuel Carrère (f. 1957) fik sit store internationale gennembrud med romanen Modstanderen 2001 som udkom i 24 lande. Seneste udgivelse på dansk er Andre liv end mit 2011.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYOne morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends.

'As a writer, Carrere is straight berserk' Junot DiazIn this non-fiction novel - road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force - Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War;

Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrere, whose fiction John Updike described as 'stunning' (New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

Historien begynder på Sri Lanka i 2004. Den franske forfatter Emmanuel Carrère holder juleferie med Hélène og deres sammenbragte børn i et forsøg på at puste liv i et lidt træt forhold. Så kommer tsunamien. Som de overlever. I første omgang er de lykkelige over alle at være sluppet uskadt men rystes kort efter af mødet med en fransk familie hvis lille datter er druknet. Efter parrets hjemkomst til Frankrig følger snart en anden død. Juliette Hélènes søster taber kampen mod en kræftsygdom. Carrère der ikke har været specielt tæt på Juliette beslutter sig for at skrive historien om hendes liv. Han påbegynder en veritabel research; fører lange samtaler med hendes mand opsøger også hendes nærmeste kollega der ligesom hun selv er undersøgelsesdommer. Fortalt som var det en roman vokser et ømt og nøgternt portræt frem både af Juliette og hendes verden og af fortælleren selv. Andre liv end mit er et mesterstykke i den romangenre man kalder autofiction. Det er samtidig en betagende hyldest til det ekstraordinære i det almindelige til hverdagen og til den måde vi alle sammen griber ind i hinandens liv en roman som det lykkes at gøre det litteraturen søger: at genskabe virkeligheden. Emmanuel Carrère (f. 1957) er fransk forfatter. På dansk er tidligere kun udkommet romanen Modstanderen i 2001. Han har modtaget flere priser for sine bøger som bliver udgivet i en lang række lande.

V13 er kodebetegnelsen for retssagskomplekset efter attentaterne i Paris den 13. november 2015 og indskriver sig som en 365 sider skønlitterær retsreportage, der på en og samme tid er yderst fransk i stil og kontekst og universel. 130 mennesker mistede livet primært på spillestedet Bataclan. Retssagen samler 14 anklagede, 1800 sagsøgere/vidner og 350 advokater. Processen løber i 9 måneder og Carrère følger alle retsmøderne fra tilhørerbænken og aflægger en ugentlig reportage til L'Obs. Nu foreligger hele reportagen som værk med titlen V13 og som et uundgåeligt dokument om terrorismen og dens ofre. Med en ambition om at kunne forklare uden at undskylde. Carrère viser her sit suveræne overblik, stilsikre fortællestil og unikke sans for detaljer og menneskelige følelser. Og ikke mindst et uovertruffent talent for at skrive selv de mest tekniske detaljer frem som stor litteratur.Emmanuel Carrère er en prisvindende fransk forfatter og journalist, der i en årrække har gjort den forkætrede autofiktion til sit varemærke, men på et uhørt højt og yderst interessant niveau. I 2000 udgav han "Modstanderen", den ’virkelige’ historie om Jean-Claude Roman. Roman havde bildt sin familie ind, at han var læge og levede af det, og i stedet for at blive afsløret som svindler foretrak han at slå dem alle ihjel: konen, børnene og sine forældre. Carrère slog for alvor igennem med "Andre liv end mit". Senere fulgte "Limonov".

This is a book about yoga. Or at least it was. Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully-he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga. Four days later, there's a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work in progress falters. His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites-self-destruction and self-control, sanity and madness, elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live. This is a book about one man's desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt and animated by the dangerous interplay of fiction and reality. Loving, humorous, harrowing, and profound, Yoga hurls us toward the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are.

A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the worldGripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding.Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrère re-creates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrère puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke's encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity, and retracing his investigation of its founder, an obscure religious freak who died under notorious circumstances.Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrère sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time. An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion, and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London) A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figuresThis is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkans; and now, in the fantastic shambles of postcommunism, the elderly but charismatic leader of a party of young desperadoes. He sees himself as a hero; you might call him a scumbag: I suspend my judgment on the matter. It's a dangerous life, an ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is also, I believe, a life that says something. Not just about him, Limonov, not just about Russia, but about all our history since the end of the Second World War."So Eduard Limonov isn't fictional-but he might as well be. This pseudobiography isn't a novel, but it reads like one: from Limonov's grim childhood to his desperate, comical, ultimately successful attempts to gain the respect of Russia's literary intellectual elite; to his immigration to New York, then to Paris; to his return to the motherland. Limonov could be read as a charming picaresque. But it could also be read as a troubling counternarrative of the second half of the twentieth century, one that reveals a violence, an anarchy, a brutality, that the stories we tell ourselves about progress tend to conceal.

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 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, and erotic tour de force-this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves, and the inevitable payment they exact.

SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS"You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether-a book at once more ordinary and more extraordinary than any first impressions might allow."-The New York Times "Moving...Carrère's prose is precise and measured...Through interviews with friends and relatives of both families, he creates powerful portraits that celebrate ordinary lives."-The New Yorker Award-winning author Emmanuel Carrère's, Lives Other Than My Own is 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 grandfather 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 selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrère has, over the course of his career, reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre, he takes what he needs from every available form or discipline-be it theology, historiography, fiction, reportage, or memoir-and fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, intellect, and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness, Carrère stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.97,196 Words introduces Carrère's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrère's creative life, this collection shows an exceptional mind at work. Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, and treating everything from American heroin addicts to the writing of In Cold Blood, from the philosophy of Philip K. Dick to a single haunting sentence in a minor story by H. P. Lovecraft, from Carrère's own botched interview with Catherine Deneuve to the week he spent following the future French president Emmanuel Macron, 97,196 Words considers the divides between truth, reality, and our shared humanity as it explores remarkable events and eccentric lives, including Carrère's own.

Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrere has reinvented non-fiction writing.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father.

Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. This book tells the story about this charecter.