Author | Emmanuel Carrère |
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Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1986 |
Pages | 182 |
The Moustache (French: La Moustache), or The Mustache in the United States,[1] is a 1986 novel by the French writer Emmanuel Carrère.[2]
In Paris, a man shaves off his moustache for the first time in ten years. He is baffled when his wife reacts by saying that he never had a moustache. His world begins to crumble when she denies the existence of several people he knows and says his father is dead.[1]
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, however skewed or surreal".[1]
Main article: The Moustache (film) |
The novel is the basis for the 2005 film The Moustache, directed by Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon.[3]