Emmanuel Carrère's 'Kolkhoz' Gets a New York Times Review
The French writer's latest book, which pairs a portrait of his mother with a meditation on truth, has been reviewed by The New York Times.
The New York Times has published a review of "Kolkhoz," the latest book by Emmanuel Carrère. According to the paper, the book combines what it calls a nuanced portrait of the author's formidable mother with a broader meditation on the fraught nature of truth.
Carrère, one of the most closely watched nonfiction and autofiction writers working in French, has built a body of work that moves between memoir, reportage and the courtroom, often turning his own family and his own doubts into material. The Times review does not go further into plot or structure beyond that pairing of the maternal portrait and the question of truth, and no details on a French-language edition, publisher or page count were included in the material available to us.
Readers who keep track of Carrère's work will recognize the terrain: his mother, the historian and former diplomat Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, has figured in his writing and public life for decades, though the Times summary gives no further specifics about how she is treated here.
We will follow up with more on "Kolkhoz" — including its French publication, if any — as further reporting becomes available.
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