Ebook {Epub PDF} The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère

The Mustache begins with a husband's playful quest. Two harrowing tales of pyschological suspense--hailed as " stunning" (John Updike)--from the mathematician of horror. Two by Carrere brings together the greatest works of Emmanuel Carrere, "the Stephen King of France" (Mirabella), two novels that are at once gripping suspense stories and laser probes into the modern psyche/5. Emmanuel Carrère: La Moustache (The Moustache) The unnamed narrator of this novel has, as the title tells us, a moustache. He has been married to Agnès for five years and has had his moustache ever since he has known her. Because he has thick stubble, he often has to shave twice a day. One afternoon, when he is about to shave, he suddenly asks Agnès whether she would mind if he shaved . "The Mustache is written from inside the hero's refusal to forget what he knows, or thinks he knows; suddenly life stops accepting the image of himself he's carried around, in one stroke banishing him from the external data that define him. His stubborn fidelity to a trivial truth, if it is one, results in a persecution complex as self-destructive as Michael Kohlhaas's quest for justice in Kleist's www.doorway.ru: Emmanuel Carrère.

The mustache by Carrère, Emmanuel, Publication date Publisher New York: Collier Books Collection inlibrary; printdisabled Internet Archive Language English. Translation of: La moustache Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Boxid IA Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor alibris External-identifier. The mustache, or lack thereof, is the banal fulcrum upon which the narrator's equilibrium balances: soon, his wife denies the existence of people he considers close friends and says that his beloved father is dead. In his American debut, Carrere keenly limns the collapse of the protagonist's world and the subversion of his sense of reality. La Moustache--now a film directed by Emmanuel Carrère "What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?" asks The Mustache's hero of his www.doorway.ru removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether.

A man, thrown into madness after shaving his mustache, struggles with his mind for an hour and a half. A deceivingly simple plot that is able to successfully drive the film in a great direction. The absolute monstrosity of a soundtrack, with most seconds being filled with highly intense strings, make every seemingly innocent scene all the more tense and ominous. La Moustache (in English, The Moustache) is a French film from , directed by Emmanuel Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon, and adapted from Carrère's own novel. The film features music from Philip Glass. "The Mustache is written from inside the hero's refusal to forget what he knows, or thinks he knows; suddenly life stops accepting the image of himself he's carried around, in one stroke banishing him from the external data that define him. His stubborn fidelity to a trivial truth, if it is one, results in a persecution complex as self-destructive as Michael Kohlhaas's quest for justice in Kleist's novella.