Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère

Author:Emmanuel Carrère
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Wyatt Mason’s article

It was around this time that an American journalist and writer named Wyatt Mason came to meet me to write a long portrait for The New York Times Magazine. At any other time this visit and the interest of The New York Times Magazine would have pleased me no end, because for a long time now I’ve aspired to a higher profile in the Anglophone literary world. But at this moment I couldn’t care less about my profile in the Anglophone literary world, I’m totally incapable of being pleased about anything, and that’s what jumps out at Wyatt Mason as soon as I open the door to my apartment on Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière. It’s an objectively pleasant duplex apartment with large windows facing a leafy courtyard, he notes at the beginning of his article. Except that like its tenant, this empty apartment in which there wasn’t the least trace of life—no books, no pictures, no chosen anything—had a strangely grim-cheerful, vaguely creepy air of vacancy. It’s rare for journalists to write such intimate impressions of the person they interview. It’s the kind of thing I could do, and Wyatt Mason did it with kind, apologetic delicacy. I remember him well: a guy in his forties with a shaved head, short beard, soft voice, very friendly, whom I’m happy to call to the witness stand to give an account of this period of my life I otherwise recall so badly. His article, which I’ve just found on the website of The New York Times, starts as follows:

Late last October, as American electoral pandemonium was approaching its climax, I was in a living room in Paris where the 59-year-old French writer Emmanuel Carrère was talking about shame. Carrère, who has the silhouette of someone half his age but whose face is so deeply grooved that its lines seem carved there, wasn’t speaking abstractly.

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