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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 Carrere. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrere 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...
E-bog
98,78 DKK
Forlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Udgivet
5 november 2019
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
DNF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780374716066
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 Carrere. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrere 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, Carrere stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.97,196 Words introduces Carrere's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrere'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 Carrere'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 Carrere's own.