My life as a Russian novel / Emmanuel Carrère

Public ISBD Titre : My life as a Russian novel : a memoir Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Emmanuel Carrère Mention d'édition : 1st U.S. ed. Editeur : New York : Metropolitan Books Année de publication : 2010 Importance : 276 p. Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8050-8755-0 Note générale : "Originally published in France in 2007 under the title Un Roman russe"--T.p. verso. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : Résumé : In this memoir, acclaimed French novelist CarrÆere turns his critical eye on himself, recounting a disappointing documentary-film endeavor and a deteriorating romance. The discovery of a Hungarian prisoner of war brings CarrÆere to the tiny post-Soviet town of Kotelnich, but the dead-end story crushes his hopes for an interesting film project. Though rural Kotelnich is hopelessly dull, CarrÆere decides to stay. He'll cover the town's poor, hard-working residents, including a bodybuilder who helps reform wayward young men and a local girl aspiring to be the next Britney Spears. More important, he'll look into the mysterious disappearance of his Russian grandfather. Hand-in-hand in this torturous Russian saga is CarrÆere's romantic crisis with fiancÐee Sophie, a young woman in love with the author but so cowed by his moods and self-absorption that she took another lover and lied outrageously about it, compounding CarrÆere's emotional paranoia. My life as a Russian novel : a memoir [texte imprimé] / Emmanuel Carrère  . -  1st U.S. ed. . - New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010 . - 276 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-0-8050-8755-0 "Originally published in France in 2007 under the title Un Roman russe"--T.p. verso. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : Résumé : In this memoir, acclaimed French novelist CarrÆere turns his critical eye on himself, recounting a disappointing documentary-film endeavor and a deteriorating romance. The discovery of a Hungarian prisoner of war brings CarrÆere to the tiny post-Soviet town of Kotelnich, but the dead-end story crushes his hopes for an interesting film project. Though rural Kotelnich is hopelessly dull, CarrÆere decides to stay. He'll cover the town's poor, hard-working residents, including a bodybuilder who helps reform wayward young men and a local girl aspiring to be the next Britney Spears. More important, he'll look into the mysterious disappearance of his Russian grandfather. Hand-in-hand in this torturous Russian saga is CarrÆere's romantic crisis with fiancÐee Sophie, a young woman in love with the author but so cowed by his moods and self-absorption that she took another lover and lied outrageously about it, compounding CarrÆere's emotional paranoia.

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