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Emmanuel Carrère's writing lesson

2022-12-07T19:34:41.776Z


Invited to the Rencontres du Figaro, the award-winning novelist revealed his childhood literary loves, with the modesty of someone who prefers to write his life rather than talk about it.


“My childhood and my adolescence are defined and told by a succession of readings

.

I was an enthusiast.

The deep voice of Emmanuel Carrère vibrates in the Salle Gaveau.

Guest of the "Grandes Rencontres du Figaro", this Tuesday, December 6, the 65-year-old author recalls his personal story under the captivated eye of an audience who came, this Tuesday evening, to listen to the writer and screenwriter discuss his relationship with literature and culture.

The award-winning novelist reveals his childhood literary loves gropingly, with the modesty of someone who prefers to write his life rather than talk about it.

Philip K. Dick, HP Lovecraft… The astonishing early readings of the man who is considered today as a master of autofiction are dominated by the fantastic.

And it is through this literature of the imagination that the bubbling of writing was born in the adolescent.

“When I read

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne, I identified with the protagonists and...

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Source: lefigaro

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