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In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron and his guests dared to each write one horror story. From that evening, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born along with the vampire of Polidori. An addictive story of surprises that dazzles and catches the reader. / En...

Carrère arrives in Calais to write a report. The decadent luxury hotel that received English tourists is in ruins, but in the cheap ones make their August lodging the police forces, while the cafes are filled with young people, journalists, and celebrities. "Calais has...

With the books included here, Emmanuel Carrère took a giant step in a career that had already stood out for its uniqueness, daring and radicalism. The author explored the non-fiction novel, and the result was three masterpieces of unmatched power. / Con los libros...

In a matter of a few months, I witnessed two of the events that I most fear in life: the death of a son for his parents and the death of a young woman for her husband and children. Somebody said to me afterwards:...

On January 9th, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, his parents, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor and had been lying since he was 18 years old. He was given a life...

In times of communism, party members received updates from the great Soviet Encyclopedia every month. When in July 1953 the dreaded Beria was finally arrested, the encyclopedia still contained a long and laudatory entry dedicated to him. A few days after the arrest, the...

A complex relationship and reckless alcohol consumption led Carrère to a period of crisis; he found refuge in Christianity. Twenty years later, he conducts a wide search on the origins of Christianity in relation to the writings of Paul, along with the gospel of...

Frédérique, a middle-class woman, a teacher, separated and with a son, leads a boring and banal life, without great incentives. Until one day she discovers roulette and with it the adrenaline of gambling, chance and the vagaries of destiny. Roulette becomes an obsession that...

Carrère's literary debut: a novel about dreams, adventures, loves and a jaguar. «Due to the humor and irreverence that it displays and that are manifested in the themes addressed and in the smallest details, this first novel contains all of the author's subsequent work»...

This biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of...

Madness and horror have both being an obsession in my life, says the author. All the books that I have written talk about nothing but that. I tried to escape. I did a research on my paternal grandfather who, after a tragic life, died...

Friday, December 13, 2015. Jihadist attacks take place in three different parts of Paris. The most serious is that of the Bataclan Room. The result is more than a hundred dead and almost half a thousand wounded. Years later, for nine months, the trial...

In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and You Are Dead, follows Philip K. Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by...

This book is a brazen expression of weaknesses and human torments, an immersion in personal chasms through writing. The book, which has generated controversy before even its publication, leaves no one indifferent.