A journey into self

Mainly known for his literary output (The mustache, which he adapted to the cinema, The Adversary, his latest novel), it is nevertheless the son of the eminent Soviet specialist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, perpetual secretary of the French Academy.

On the occasion of the discovery in a refuge lost in the depths of Russia, Kotelnitch, a Hungarian prisoner vestige of the last war, Emmanuel Carrère share on assignment there, and returns a few months later , interested, intrigued and guided by an inner strength in order to make a film. The French, like the people out there call it, came not only to film. This is an opportunity for him to make the point in his life, to touch a genealogical investigation of his maternal grandfather, to tell us about his marriage, his doubts, his life and his demons, the better s 'liberate.

Initially a bit daunting because particular, depressing and boring strand A Russian novel takes us alongside this cynical anti-hero, lost and depressed, on his journey to Kotelnitch, trip or he went to get the answers he needed, and he returned with more disappointment than anything else.

Quite disturbing because intimate, his jaded narrative tone gives us a board camera effect which one attaches quickly, making us more familiar to the author, closer. A complex book in the image of its author, we suggest you warmly, both for its literary qualities as for its biographical content.