Noiville, Florence (1 March 2007), "Emmanuel Carrère : « J'avais l'impression d'être enfermé »", Le Monde “Il est, dit Emmanuel Carrère, “le secret de ma mère. ... Ce livre était une chose que ma mère m’avait demandé de ne pas faire et que j’estimais ne pas pouvoir ne pas faire”.”
Parker, Ian (4 July 2022), "Emmanuel Carrère Writes His Way Through a Breakdown", New Yorker “By making all this public, Carrère opened a rift with his mother. “For more than two years, there were very, very cold relations,” he told me. In time, they reconciled, he said, “but ‘reconciled’ means never talking about it”.”
