My Life as a Russian Novel, Emmanuel Carrere
My Life as a Russian Novel, Emmanuel Carrere
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My Life as a Russian Novel
A Memoir

Author: Emmanuel Carrere

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/03/2010


Synopsis

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 Carrère 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.

About Emmanuel Carrere

Emmanuel Carrere, one of France's most critically acclaimed writers, is the author of several screenplays and novels, including Class Trip, The Mustache, and The Adversary, a New York Times Notable Book. Emmanuel lives in Paris.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on July 09, 2017

Semi-disastrous structurally, but with enough good writing and Carrere-style free-associative confession/analysis to keep me going. This is by far the weakest of his hybrid non-fiction works that I've read (I adored THE KINGDOM and thought THE ADVERSARY was gripping), and the problem is essentially......more

Goodreads review by Paola on October 28, 2018

Penso che le persone possano trovare libri che si adattano di più ai periodi che stanno vivendo e “Un romanzo russo” per me è stato questo, il libro giusto. Non mi sentivo così tanto dentro una storia dai tempi di Kundera.......more

Goodreads review by Cosimo on May 08, 2018

Credimi, sto mentendo “A volte ho l’impressione di raccontare cose che mi si buttano addosso. Come è successo per questo documentario. Intorno a me o anche contro di me, succedono delle cose che accendono in me curiosità oppure orrore, e allora io non so fare altre che raccontarle. Non so bene perché......more

Goodreads review by Come on May 10, 2018

Ho un debole per questo scrittore, un debole forte. Nonostante sia così pieno di sé, consapevole di essere il grande Emmanuel Carrère, non si vergogna nel mostrare il suo lato oscuro. È come se dicesse al lettore “Questo sono io, prendere o lasciare.” E sin dalle prime pagine mi è piaciuto, perché am......more

Goodreads review by Nacho on July 09, 2018

Una novela rusa, de Carrère, es un libro que tiene muchos problemas y muy grandes. Cuenta varias tramas, pero en su mayor parte no van a ningún lado. Además no tienen apenas relación entre sí que justifique que estén en el mismo libro, y la que parece más interesante queda abandonada en las primeras......more