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Original Title:	L'Adversaire
ISBN:	8806155792 (ISBN13: 9788806155797)
Edition Language:	Italian URL http://www.einaudi.it/libri/libro/emmanuel-carr-re/l-avversario/978880615579
Setting:	France Geneva(Switzerland)

L'avversario Paperback | Pages: 164 pages

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"Il 9 gennaio 1993, Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso moglie, figli e genitori. Poi ha tentato, invano, di suicidarsi. L'indagine ha rivelato che non era un medico come aveva sempre sostenuto e, cosa ancor piú difficile da credere, non era nient'altro. Mentiva da diciotto anni, ma la sua menzogna non copriva nulla. Quando stava per essere scoperto, ha preferito sopprimere tutte le persone di cui non avrebbe mai potuto reggere lo sguardo. È stato condannato all'ergastolo. lo sono entrato in contatto con lui, ho assistito al suo processo. Ho tentato di raccontare con precisione, giorno dopo giorno, questa vita di solitudine, d'impostura e d'assenza. Di immaginare cosa gli passava per la testa durante le lunghe ore vuote, senza progetti né testimoni, che avrebbe dovuto trascorrere al lavoro e invece passava nei parcheggi autostradali o nei boschi del Jura. Di capire che cosa, in un'esperienza umana tanto estrema, mi ha toccato cosi da vicino. E tocca, credo, ciascuno di noi" (Emmanuel Carrère).

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Title	:	L'avversario
Author	:	Emmanuel Carrère
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 164 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2000 by Einaudi (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Mystery. Cultural. France. Biography

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4.5 starsWHAT A RIDE.This has to be one of the most interesting and fucked up story I had the pleasure to read. Barely 200 pages in length and it covered so much of Jean-Claude Romand's story & life that it left me stunned. The fact that he lied for 18 years without anyone even suspecting of it is just pure madness.Definitely a must read!

This has to be one of the most disturbing books Ive read for a long time. Not because the crimes are any more or less horrific than some of the others Ive explored but because the story is so well told by Emmanuel Carrère that I kept forgetting this wasnt fiction and so found myself horrified all over again when I remembered, this really did happen.Jean-Claude Romand was convicted for killing his wife, two children and his parents in separate and seemingly well thought-out attacks, he then set

Comprehending the incomprehensible...On January 9th, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his two young children and his parents and then failed to kill himself. Emmanuel Carrère tells us that, on reading about the case as it was splashed all over the newspapers, he quickly decided to write about it. It wasnt the facts that interested him so much, though he wanted to understand what went on Romands head. By corresponding with Romand, talking to his friends and neighbours, attending his

How could we have lived beside this man for so long without suspecting a thing?An utterly compelling tour-de-force as Carrere offers a wonderfully complicated account of the long-term imposter, Jean-Claude Romand, who ends by massacring his entire family to avoid being caught out. That's a vast over-simplification of a book which is thoughtful, gripping, and which itself grapples with both how to tell Romand's story and how to make sense of it. Carrere keeps things tense and taut (the book is

I promise to give my honest opinion on this book, and not tell a bag of lies.Jean-Claude Romand turned out to be just about the biggest impostor I have ever come across. And the ultimate question is - How did this lovable family man get away with telling so many fibs about his life for so long? The people closest to him seemed of sound mind, but never aroused suspicion on all the horse pucky he was feeding them. The initial facts are extraordinary enough on what he got away with, that lead up to

Carrère's project is not just an act of chronicling a mass murderer's life from childhood to final monstrous act and thereafter, but also an engagement with questions that many of his readers shall no doubt have - "what does building a narrative do to our understanding of evil"? - "should we, really, try and understand evil?" - "is understanding it really possible?" - et cetera. Jean-Claude Romand, the fraud and murderer in question here, is seen as a human being by Carrère, which is to say that

Crème de la CrimeJean-Claude Romand killed his wife, two children and his mother and father in a French village not far from Geneva in 1993. Six years later Emmanuel Carrère finished a book about the murders. This is all we know for sure: the dead bodies, the book and the chronology of two sets of events. And therein lies the mystery posed by Carrère.Is the book fact or fiction? Carrère makes it purposely ambiguous by telling the reader that his ambitions to write a psychological assessment of