Why people recommend it
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère is a genre-bending autobiographical work that chronicles the author's journey through depression, psychiatric hospitalization, and spiritual seeking, while openly questioning the boundary between strict truth and fiction. On an episode of The Book Review titled Louis Menand on The Free World, host Pamela Paul discussed how the author reveals that certain portions of the narrative are purposefully fabricated. On another episode titled Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity, guest Parul Sehgal reflected on reading the book during quarantine while confronting themes of severe depression and institutionalization. Additionally, in the episode Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles, host Gilbert Cruz introduced critic Molly Young to discuss her review of the memoir. Young reiterated her evaluation of the book at the end of the segment, emphasizing how Carrère's provocative self-examination challenges conventional boundaries of memoir writing, forcing readers to grapple with the complexities of mental illness, radical honesty, and the ethics of personal storytelling.
Who recommended it
- Pamela Paul Discussed
- Parul Sehgal Discussed
- Gilbert Cruz Discussed
- Molly Young Discussed
Pamela Paul — 1 mention
“which is called yoga where he reveals that not everything in the book is true and he tells you a certain things that that aren't true”
Parul Sehgal — 1 mention
“there's some point where I'm reading like I was recently reading this book yoga by Emanuel carrer and you know there's a point where he's very depressed and he's in a a mental institution”
Gilbert Cruz — 1 mention
“you reviewed the new book by Emanuel carer yoga carer's”
Molly Young — 1 mention
“I review Memoirs by Robert LOL and I reviewed yoga by Emanuel carrer”
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I'm reading the committed by Viet tanw and I I'm reading Raymond Chandler's the big sleep and I read Beijing payback by Daniel n and yoga by Emanuel career”