Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: 97,196 Words Essays
Author(s): Carrere Emmanuel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758095
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/1/2020
Category: Literary Essays