Name: Yoga
Price: 26.81 EUR
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Author: Emmanuel Carrère
ISBN: 9780374604943

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emmanuel Carrère

Translated by

John Lambert

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.5 x 14.4 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.46 kg.

ISBN13

9780374604943

Synopsis "Yoga "

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Guardian This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga. Four days later, there's a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work-in-progress falters. His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites--between self-destruction and self-control; sanity and madness; elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live. This is a book about one man's desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. Loving, humorous, harrowing and profound, Yoga hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are.

Emmanuel Carrère

(Author)

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Emmanuel Carrère (Paris, December 9, 1957) is a French writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for his ability to blend reality and fiction in his works. His literary career spans novels, biographies, and essays that explore the human condition and the complexities of identity.

Among his most notable works are "The Adversary" (2000), a non-fiction novel that tells the real story of Jean-Claude Romand; "Limonov" (2011), a fictional biography of the controversial Russian writer and politician Eduard Limonov; and "The Kingdom" (2014), a deep reflection on the origins of Christianity. Carrère has been awarded prizes such as the Femina Prize in 1995 and the Renaudot Prize in 2011. In 2021, he received the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature for his contribution to contemporary literature.

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