Emmanuel Carrère’s essays and books pick through the minds of murderers, con-men, power-brokers, addicts and the downtrodden; even his own friends, family and lovers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 294 pages; $28. Jonathan Cape; £18.99.is known for the way he bends and breaks genres. His essays and books pick through the minds of murderers, con-men, Russian revolutionaries, artists, power-brokers, addicts and the downtrodden; even his own friends, family and lovers. He started as a novelist in his 20s and 30s, and now, at 61, is the most celebrated writer of high-end nonfiction in France.
Mr Carrère’s trademark style crystallised while he was working on his book “The Adversary” . It was intended as an account of Jean-Claude Romand, a French murderer who in 1993 killed his wife, children, parents and dog, and attempted to kill himself, after almost two decades of pretending to be a researcher at the World Health Organisation.
This accidental style has since become a sort of credo. It is mendacious, Mr Carrère suggests, for authors to pretend that they exist above or outside a rigorously crafted piece of writing, as Capote did for instance. “I don’t think you can put yourself in other people’s positions. Nor should you,” he has argued.
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