In “Kolkhoze”, Emmanuel Carrère becomes the son of his mother

Basically, we don’t care that Emmanuel Carrère or not tells the truth. Therefore, He has always swears that this is the case. Consequently, presents himself as a “Documentary writer”hammers that good literature cannot lie … Consequently, It makes it a whole story and yet it does not matter. For example, In any case for us, readers. From the point of view of those around him, that’s something else, “kolkhoze”, emmanuel carrère becomes son there is injury in the air. But we would like his books even if everything was false. it has been a good one that we identify with no firm not with a body but with the character who says “I” in his texts, and too bad if this “I” is not completely him. All that we ask him is to continue to move us, to make us laugh and cry, to haop us. This character concerns us personally. we are waiting for the rest, that he still tells us about his life, his anxiety of death, his badly barred loves, his difficulty of writing.

Death, love, writing, these three patterns intertwine again in Kolkhoze. Returning to the disappearance of his mother. the famous historian of Russia and perpetual secretary of the French Academy Hélène Carrère d’Encausse (1929-2023), with which relations have never been easy, the narrator goes in “kolkhoze”, emmanuel carrère becomes son search of love which could link them, despite everything; He wonders to what extent this link oriented his work as a writer, or rather disoriented him, offered to the shocking melancholy, to the depressed clairvoyance, in short to everything we love at home and take pleasure in finding, book after book.

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