by Emmanuel Carrère · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784705800
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«The Adversary» is Emmanuel Carrère's true crime essay, published by Vintage in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Emmanuel Carrère reconstructs the real case of Jean-Claude Romand, a doctor who maintained a double life of lies for eighteen years. The work combines real facts and psychological analysis to portray an impostor and the limits of self-deception, until January 9, 1993, when the farce ended with the death of his wife and children.
The book was originally published in French as «L'adversaire» in 2000; the English edition dates from July 2017.
It will interest readers of true crime and narrative nonfiction seeking a psychological portrait of a real deception.
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and film director.
