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basically this book chewed up my brain like a piece of gum. and then spit it out. because that's what you do with a piece of gum.bottom line: don't swallow gum - that's gross. also this book is a mindf*ck.
A man shaves off his mustache in a moment of spontaneity to surprise his wife of five years. However, she doesn't notice and in fact denies that his mustache ever existed. He thinks she is playing an elaborate joke, but he soon finds that his friends also deny that he ever had one. When he looks at pictures of the two of them as a couple, he sees his mustache, but she doesn't. Pretending to be blind, he offers his (mustached) driver's license to a stranger on the street and asks her to describe
what. the. fuck. 😀
Sometimes even short books are too long.
WHAT THE FUCK
The protagonist of Carrère’s novella is a successful, happily married architect. One day he decides to surprise Agnes, his wife of five years, by shaving off his moustache. He waits for her reaction… which doesn’t come. When he presses her to comment about his new look, she insists that he never sported facial hair. At first, he is convinced that Agnes is playing some sort of elaborate joke on him, a perfectly reasonable explanation considering that she is somewhat of a pathological liar. But wh...
I believe however fantastical or surreal or crazy a book tries to be, in the end, it should be satisfactory. The Mustache, spelt without an O (French grammar rules?), is mind-riveting in the sense you do not know who or even what to believe. Was the Mustache there or not, whose mind gave out first or what am I supposed to take out of this, there was not closure which I desperately crave as a personality trait. If you like books that can be described as mind-fucking, this could be a good pick but...
Once again I am indebted to Vintage for bringing a modern classic into English. The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère smoothly translated by Lanie Goodman. Originally published in 1986 it is the story of a man, the narrator of the story, who decides one day to surprise his wife and friends by shaving off his long standing moustache.Imagine his surprise and concern when no-one bats an eyelid. Indeed he starts to think that it is a prank by his wife to counter this wanton act shaving the thing off. Th...
A man with a luxuriant mustache gets a wild hair and shaves it off. He's had that mustache for many years, but no one seems to notice anything different about him. When pressed, his wife, his friends, the people with whom he works, all maintain that he has never had a mustache. Settle in as he begins to question everything in his life, watch as his mind starts to become unhinged, and then crack. At the end, you will see that his fixation on his own facial hair is complete. My thanks to GR fr...
A generous four stars. More like 3.577 rounded up for its weirdness, how it runs away from itself, ending where it began in a way that's textbook "surprising yet inevitable" plus not at all Hollywood. The story runs away from itself as the unnamed main dude's rational yet totally irrational interiority gets the better of him and turns what at first seemed like an absurdist existential mystery into an absurdist existential adventure, always with more comedic than tragic overtones. A pretty good s...
Disconcertingly surreal. Fun and maddening at the same time.What Psycho did for showers this does for shaving.A man shaves his signature moustache expecting huge reactions from his wife, friends, and co-workers. Instead, everyone claims that he never had a moustache. And it all gets weirder from their.
What a bizarre and disturbing story. You think you understand that our protagonist is dealing with a pathological liar. And then all hell breaks loose. This is an oddly apt book for our times when world leaders lie with impunity. But one hopes that we will end this chapter of our lives better than the protagonist (who I only realized was never named once I began typing this review). This surreal reality feels real, and thus really scary.12/3/19 UpdateThis book--primarily the ending--stirred me u...
This starts out in innocuous fashion as a man contemplates shaving off his moustache, but from this harmless beginning we soon spiral into a surreal tale of paranoia and existential unease, all of which hinges back on the existence - or not - of some facial hair. Beautifully controlled, surreal and unsettling, with one of the most shocking, though inevitable, endings I've read, this is Kafka-esque but in a modern sense. Carrere is wholly original and this might be slight in page numbers but huge...
A casual shave of the protagonist's long-worn moustache escalates quickly when his wife and friends did not notice. Doubting their motives and his sanity take dramatic turns in the life of the anti-hero.great work with much depth under its absurdity.Pace was a little slow at times, otherwise would have deserved a 5 star rating.
