My Life As A Russian Novel

Authors: Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: 1
Publish Year: 2018
ISBN: 9781784705817

In this ‘non-fiction novel’ that has become his trademark, Emmanuel Carrère pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War; and a violently passionate affair with a woman he loves but cannot stop himself from destroying.

In prose of brutal clarity – travelling between Paris and Kotelnich, a grisly post-Soviet town – Carrère weaves his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force, this fearless account illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves, and the price paid for lucid self-understanding.