The Moustache

The Moustache (French: La Moustache), or The Mustache in the United States,^[1] is a 1986 novel by the French writer Emmanuel Carrère.^[2]

Plot

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]

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, however skewed or surreal".^[1]

Film adaptation

The novel is the basis for the 2005 film The Moustache, directed by Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon.^[3]

References

External links

• Penguin Books