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  • A Russian novel is not a novel  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    The work is purely autobiographical, so it is not a novel as the title suggests, perhaps ironically. We know that since The Adversary, Carrère has renounced fiction, and that's good, but it does not fall into the trap of narcissistic or chaotic many
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  • Bad ... 282  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    There are undoubtedly in this novel a pleasant writing shimmer, an exotic charm, interesting historical elements. But these apparent qualities are tempered by a histrionic tone, and I would say exhibitionist: in other words, absolute sincerity assign
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  • Quest orgines and self-narrative  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    A book that is not without interest, but I found less interesting than "Limonov" for example. The story consists of several intersecting stories: a story about a Hungarian prisoner of World War II stayed 50 years in a Russian psychiatric hospita
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  • Too self-absorbed!  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    I love the work of Emmanuelle Carrère, including "More lives than mine," but I found this novel too self-absorbed and I had trouble keeping the author in his intellectual wanderings. I found this somewhat clumsy self-analysis and in fact I have
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  • Double exorcism family and love  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    I discovered Emmanuel Carrère backwards. After reading the biography of Limonov, I so loved on substance than on form, I hesitated between a Russian novel and other lives than mine. Finally, the autobiographical novel won. In contrast, previous novel
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  • Not for everyone ... 4  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    After following Emmanuel Carrère happily in his novels or essays strongly "conceptual", who saw the real work when it disintegrates under the pertubatrice power of the human mind (just as in PKDick except that in Carrère, suffering is more acute
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  • Disconcerting 3  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    A book of incredible power. Disconcerting by the situations he depicts, by events that it causes, by unexpected connections it creates. It took me weeks to move on. Carrère is a great writer, each of his books is unforgettable. Since his biography of
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  • A journey into self  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    Autofictions of 2007, the greatest buzz has been around the last novel by Emmanuel Carrère published by POL at the end of last winter: A Russian novel. Mainly known for his literary output (The mustache, which he adapted to the cinema, The Adversary,
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  • whirlwind of emotions and internal contrdictions  

    A Russian novel (Paperback)
    it's been several years since I regularly read books by Emmanuel Carrère, as and when they come out ... this one is on a whole other level (close to autobiography, or month presented as such) but remains well within the previous style is that is the
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