Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Der Widersacher by Emmanuel Carrère

12 reviews

pil4r's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.0

 En un limbo entre la novela y algún tipo de crónica, Carrere edifica El adversario. De esta obra, les propongo saber muy poco al momento de enfrentarse a su lectura. Lo justo y necesario, quizás: que se insmicuye en el ¿género? true crime y que lo hace con más rasgos de ensayo que de thriller.
A mi entender, si bien la trama llama la atención e intriga, el mayor interés y frescura se encuentran en las reflexiones del autor y las preguntas que el mismo se hace intentando entender su identificación, relación e historia con el protagonista.
Inicialmente, me resultó un poco confuso el hilo y orden de la narrativa pero poco a poco le fui rastreando la idea y el sentido. Para ello, me sirvió (e hizo falta) googlear y conocer un poco más al autor y su trabajo.
Una lectura breve y que puede convocar a quienes disfruten tanto del true crime como la prosa de autorxs conflictuadxs. 

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jameswilbourn's review against another edition

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informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0


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jessus's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

4.75


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aliss_'s review against another edition

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emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful book, sad story.

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michela_ognibeni's review against another edition

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dark informative sad medium-paced

3.5


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elaa0907's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

3.5


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pnwlibro's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0


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letiross's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

4.0


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garynoplastie's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad fast-paced

4.0


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dustyloup's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

English below
Je n'ai pas arrêté de parler de ce livre à mon entourage, "ce mec il est incroyable... Dans le sens négatif. Il est comme Frank Abegnale dans attrape moi si tu peux mais en pire". Et maintenant il est devenu un bon catho et il est en liberté :0. 

Holy cow, this guy! It's hard to believe that nobody ever caught him in his lies... Except perhaps in 1993. He's like Frank Abegnale from Catch me if you can but worse. And now he's been released and he's supposedly a good Catholic now...sure. 

I'm hesitating between 3&4 stars because it's not a masterpiece but the author sucks you in to the story from the beginning!

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