The Moustache
Novel by Emmanuel Carrère
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The Moustache (French: La Moustache), or The Mustache in the United States,[1] is a 1986 novel by French writer Emmanuel Carrère.[2]
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| Author | Emmanuel Carrère |
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| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | 182 |
Plot
In Paris, a man shaves off his moustache for the first time in ten years. He is baffled when his wife reacts by insisting that he never had a moustache. His world begins to crumble when she denies the existence of several people he knows and claims his father is dead.[1]
Reception
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, no matter how skewed or surreal".[1]
Film adaptation
The novel serves as the basis for the 2005 film The Moustache, directed by Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon.[3]