The Moustache
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| Author | Emmanuel Carrère |
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| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
| Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | 182 |
The Moustache (French: La Moustache), or The Mustache in the United States,[1] is a 1986 novel by French writer Emmanuel Carrère.[2]
Plot
[edit]In Paris, a man shaves off his moustache for the first time in ten years. He is baffled when his wife reacts by insisting that he never had a moustache. His world begins to crumble when she denies the existence of several people he knows and claims his father is dead.[1]
Reception
[edit]Publishers Weekly called the book "a tense, piercing reminder that a fine and shifting line distinguishes fact from mirage" and "a keen example of how readers are necessary captives of a narrator's perspective, no matter how skewed or surreal".[1]
Film adaptation
[edit]The novel serves as the basis for the 2005 film The Moustache, directed by Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "The Mustache". Publishers Weekly. 1988. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ↑ Ekstein, Nina (2013). "Irony in Emmanuel Carrère's 'La moustache'". The French Review. 86 (3): 497–506. doi:10.1353/tfr.2013.0424. JSTOR 23510842. S2CID 45077621.
- ↑ "The Moustache". Cineuropa. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
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