Fetch Your Copy Yoga : Emmanuel Carrère, Thibault De Montalembert, Gallimard Brought To You By Emmanuel Carrre Offered As Publication

am going to be teaching this book in a class, and, as a yoga practitioner for many years, found it compelling and fascinating at the beginning, as Carrère brilliantly represented the way the mind works during meditation, all the while telling stories that are at once "wandering thoughts" on the cushion and important weave ins to his overall narrative.
The digressive form he excels at thus becomes a necessary narrative strategy, However, I found the hole in the middle too much: I was dreading and desiring that the breakdown would occur on the mat and that EC was leading us to the inevitable psychic breakdown due to "man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," as Pascal said.
This whole "I got depressed because of something that happened in my life that I can't tell you about" i, e. his divorce felt almost like an insult to the good work he was doing at the beginning, and the ending is so cliché it almost made me cry.
In fact, it contradicts the whole premise of the first part of the book, which is that yoga is a search for truth and self understanding, and not merely "gymnastics.
" Spoiler: the fact that the narrator falls for a pretty young thing who does "gymnastic" yoga makes me think that he's thrown his whole original yogic quest out the window, and if so, fine.
But why write about it then Or, rather, he could have said: I realized that I was striving too hard and that joy is a gift, But then why drag in all the suffering of others

I felt that was due to a need to excuse his own depression, to try to make his depression seem like it was existential and universal "true" than just a big collapse due to his wife leaving him.
It was as if I got dragged into a really long shaggy dog story, Quest, truth, exploration, depression, the cruelty of the world ah! Cute girl who likes me! Moreover, as a single older women, I'm depressed by yet another wealthy white man finding happiness with a cute young thing in fact, I felt betrayed by the promise of the book.
I had originally thought that EC was speaking to ME, But at the end, I felt as lonely as Erica who went off to Australia, alone and unloved, She's a fascinating older woman in the text, and the scene where they drink together and dance to Chopin is one of the best in the book wow.
They share an amazing connection, but, of course, can't sleep together, because, well, she's too old, about his age, quoi, If you're reading this, EC, be aware that a lot of your public, at least in the US, will consist of older women who practice yoga, and who were anxiously awaiting your wisdom and insight into the subject.
But for anyone else reading this, know that it's carnal love, and not enlightenment, that the narrator truly desires, and that it's carnal love, and not meditating nor not even kids, friends, fabulous vacations all over the world, and work that can keep the bipolar hounds at bay.
It's still a four star book because the writing is so brilliant, I just wish the message were inspiring, And it's not that I'm just being an "American puritan" here, French friends: I'm not judging EC because he likes sex, I am judging the book because the narrative pulls us in with promises of deep mental and psychic explorations, and drops us with an ending not unlike the rather jarring end of Nadja.
At least with Breton and the surrealists, romantic love was their "revolutionary force" meant to destroy all of society's old divisions, Here, I had thought that yoga and meditation and the resistance to it, thus creating the alternating duality so inherent to the Yoga's apparent message were the subject.
And he didn't follow through yoga and meditation come off as after thoughts at the end of the story if they appear at all, Très beau récit personnel dEmmanuel Carrère que lon retrouve après une longue absence ce livre est un condensé de ses dernières années deàavec le yoga et la méditation occupant une part importante du récit.
Il y a également la dépression qui y occupe une Emmanuel Carrere franchit avec ce nouvel ouvrage un pas vers plus de confidences sur lui même.
Cest très bien conté, On participe ainsi à ses angoisses et à ses efforts pour recouvrer la joie de vivre, Cest un bon livre. Je fus mitigée car quand j'ai acheté ce livre, je pensais que ça parlait des prémisses du yoga, des termes technique et pratique, sur l'origine, l'histoire et la pratique donc du yoga.
En lisant j'ai donc vite compris que ce n'était pas le sujet, mais plutôt un Très bon livre agréable à lire J'aime cet auteur qui sous couvert d'aborder n'importe quel sujet , se confie et vous emmène loin du titre et de ses apparentes finalités.
trèa bien écrit , comme une conversation , entre amis, Comme d'habitude, le style de cet auteur est du cousu main, de la haute littérature et l'on peut suivre à la lecture de ses écrits le fil de sa vie aux travers volontairement écrit ainsi de sa vie, de la classe de neige à Yoga.
La retenue de ses débuts a fait place peu à peu à une forme d'impudeur dont le but est sans doute de le délivrer de ses démons.
Je lui souhaite une vraie sérénité dans les méandres de sa vie, Ich lese Carrère auf französisch, obwohl das nicht meine Muttersprache ist, Er schreibt schlicht keinen unnötigen Satz, Und genau wie bei "L'adversaire" dt: Der Widersacher beschreibt er, wie er an dem selbst auferlegten Thema scheitert: Bei "l'adversaire" wollte er einen Mörder verstehen und entschied sich am Ende, dass es besser und moralisch geboten ist, dies nicht zu tun.
Und bei "Yoga" soll es ein Sachbuch über eben Yoga und Meditation werden, aber dann kommt das Leben dazwischen On attendait de l'auteur un récit sur son approche du Yoga méditatif et de son éventuel bienfait sur sa vie personnelle.
Déception sur les bienfaits et déception sur le récit qui dérive vers des anecdotes de vie complétement hors sujet, Un peu de rigueur dans vos écrits, Ce n'est certainement pas le meilleur livre d'E, Carrère. Il y a de vraies lacunes de construction qui laissent un sentiment étrange deoulivres ououlongs articles qui vivent leur vie en parallèle dans les mêmes pages sans vraiment s'enrichir.
Le passage Le début me paraîssait prometteur, Le séminaire Vipassana est très bien décrit, avec beaucoup d'humour parfois nombreux termes propres au yoga aussi très enrichissant, Puis cela bifurque sur la vie intime de l'auteur qui passe du nirvana au dernier stade de sa non De ce bouquin, qui devait être, à l'origine, comme son titre l'indique, un livre sur le Yoga, j'aime tout.
J'aime son aspect composite, où il est question de Yoga, un peu ce qu'il dit du tai chi et des arts martiaux me parle beaucoup, de dépression et de la façon Leggo volentieri Carrere, la sua capacità di tratteggiare i suoi personaggi e le loro parabole esistenziali mi hanno sempre convintoQuesta autobiografia pero mi ha leggermente deluso , assai frammentaria e che lascia molto di incompiuto.
Le pagine migliori sono le più drammatiche , quelle di quando lo scrittore si trova in ospedale per i suoi gravi disturbi bipolari, Ma per il resto vi sono lunghe pagine noiose , piatte, Spesso ho pensato che sullo stesso identico tema Houllebecq avrebbe scritto meglio , con più verve , con ancora più autoironia e sarcasmoPeccato, attendiamo il prossimo libro C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression.
La méditation et le terrorisme, L'aspiration à l'unité et le trouble bipolaire, Des choses qui n'ont pas l'air d'aller ensemble, et pourtant : elles vont ensemble, .