Yoga

Make it clear to potential clueless readers that this is not a practical yoga manual, nor is it a well-intentioned self-help book. It is the narration in first person and without any cover of the deep depression with suicidal tendencies that led the author to be hospitalized, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated for four months. It is also a book about a relationship crisis, about the emotional breakdown and its consequences. And about Islamist terrorism and the drama of refugees. And yes, in a way also about yoga, which the writer has been practicing for twenty years. The reader has in his hands a text by Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Carrère written in the manner of Emmanuel Carrère. That is, without rules, jumping into the void without a net. Long ago, the author decided to leave fiction and the genre corset behind. And in this work, dazzling and at the same time heartbreaking, autobiography, essays and journalistic chronicles intersect. Carrère talks about himself and takes another step in his exploration of the limits of the literary. The result is a stark expression of human infirmities and torments, an immersion in personal abyss through writing. The book, which has already generated controversy before its publication, leaves no one indifferent.