Friday, May 4, 2007

Getting Braces With A Missing Molar Tooth

Emmanuel Carrère - a Russian novel

Disadvantages of a radiant heredity.

Say it once to set the context: Emmanuel Carrère is the son of Helene Carrere d'Encausse. But it is also the grand son of the father of it. Do not look for the trap, there are none. Rather, the starting line of a mad dash to the author, through itself and from branch to branch of a tree loaded. Crazy race with or without thread. If, however, this thread exists: pain. Which? 'That Is The Question. " The pain seems to be an ontological component of the pen of the novelist. It is there and she weighs. And when she fled, she just changes as a gateway, shape, way. The author

and main character of this autobiographical novel, this autofiction if gender is now recognized (I also found him a certain nobility, but that's not the point), flees to a remote Russian province where nothing happens, where nothing seems possible to extract the light of social and emotional night, a fog of ambition, a storm of alcohol, dramas and talk. With this in Russia where he tries to feel the weight of its past, the presence of his grandfather, the story that his mother keeps jealously. This is also where he fled an unlikely romance with a woman more tortured him again. Why the middle of nowhere? Because. To do what? Wait. It happens something. And if nothing happened? Would we really have to look deep within?

The author-protagonist attempts a crazy experiment, that of the new erotic literary exhibitionism, to win back the love that disappears, evaporates. But when everything collapsed within beings, it is unrealistic to believe that the arts of creation can save what no longer exists. Accept a break is to live the failure of self, this is what has built the hope of becoming. It is a challenge. In the case of this novel may be an issue. Because the rupture told over a hundred pages is a cruelty rarely achieved.

hurt each other to avoid going down himself. Search for answers to his family does not want to ask. Wait outside act to avoid getting involved yourself, watch others do not see as you are. The writing is compelling, powerful novel, the cold pain. As hardened by the long Russian winter ...

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