Jean-Claude Carrière Books In Order

Frankenstein Books In Order

  1. Frankenstein’s Tower (2016)
  2. Frankenstein’s Tread (2016)
  3. The Night of Frankenstein (2017)
  4. The Seal of Frankenestein (2017)

Novels

  1. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1959)
  2. Mon Oncle (1974)
  3. Please Mr Einstein (2006)

Plays

  1. The Mahabharata (1988)
  2. Milou in May (1990)
  3. Chinese Box and a Film-maker’s Diary (1998)
  4. The Little Black Book (2003)
  5. The Controversy of Valladolid (2005)

Graphic Novels

  1. The Sky over the Louvre (2011)

Non fiction

  1. The Secret Language of Film (1994)
  2. Violence and Compassion (2001)
  3. This is Not the End of the Book (2011)

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Jean-Claude Carrière Books Overview

Please Mr Einstein

A novel to make you fall in love with physics and philosophy.A young woman enters a building in a nameless contemporary European city. She walks into a waiting room where a dozen people, with briefcases or sheaves of documents, are gathered. She is ushered into a large office where she meets Albert Einstein who is engaged in trying to figure out the equation that explains the universe. He is charmed by her, and agrees to answer her questions. He seems very used to receiving visitors. Among them, Isaac Newton is certainly the most regular and the most argumentative, desperately trying to prove Einstein wrong. Einstein and the student start discussing the concepts of time and space. He explains his theories about relativity and his responsibility in the creation of nuclear weapons. Einstein also talks about the difficulty of being famous, about his relationship with other scientists and how his dreams of worldwide peace were shattered. He appears bright, witty, hugely sympathetic but also tormented and dreamy. This is a remarkable book that makes complex concepts of physics and philosophy accessible to the non scientific reader in a captivating and utterly charming manner. From the Hardcover edition.

The Little Black Book

One morning, confirmed bachelor Jean Jacques leaves his door ajar and a total stranger slips into his life. Is she a squatter, somewhat deranged, or a woman from his past? Jean Jacques orderly world is turned upside down, when what started as a comic encounter changes his life forever.

The Sky over the Louvre

In the next volume in co edition with the Louvre museum we go back to the very origins of the Louvre as a museum: the tumultuous years of the French revolution. It’s the story of a painting of the Supreme Being, ordered by Robespierre from the famous painter David. A painting which was never made. It s also the story of another painting, that of the young Bara, a 13 year old martyr of the Republic. From the inauguration of the Louvre, former royal palace, as the museum for the people, to the death of Robespierre, this is also the portrayal of the face to face of two major actors of a revolution in a great hurry. Robespierre appears equally enlightened and lost while David accomplishes his destiny: a painter torn between political engagement and artistic ambition. Yslaire, one the great stars of French comics, delivers a stunning masterwork in an epic and disturbing graphic novel seeped in a dramatic and fascinating period of history.

The Secret Language of Film

Carriere, whose screenwriting credits include The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Cyrano de Bergerac, explores the vocabulary of the visual language of film. Filled with anecdote and insight, this book provides readers with an illuminating new way to see and enjoy the movies.

Violence and Compassion

Timeless wisdom on life today from a leading French intellectual and one of the greatest of contemporary spiritual leaders that picks up where The Art of Happiness left off. French film writer Jean Claude Carri’re had the extraordinary opportunity to sit down for a series of conversations with one of today’s most respected and popular spiritual leaders His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Those interviews, which make up Violence and Compassion, give readers a historic chance to listen in as two formidable thinkers discuss issues that are of concern to all. The discussion covers the various problems that confront world civilization today; including terrorism, the population explosion, environmental dangers, and an escalation in random violence. The Dalai Lama exhibits his characteristic warmth and clarity of thought throughout each of these talks, but what readers will find most valuable is his ability to cut through to the essence of each issue and offer insightful guidance. Carri’re, though respectful, never settles for pat answers and consistently asks the down to earth questions readers themselves would undoubtedly have asked. The insightful dialogues contained in Violence and Compassion brings humanity the profound wisdom needed to tackle the challenges of the twenty first century.

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