LO161 Café Littéraire: "Kolkhose," by Emmanuel Carrère

  • 16 Oct 2026
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • A member's apartment in the 11th. Details will be sent after registration.
  • 7

Registration

  • New WICE Members
  • Susan Vogt
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Published in 2025, Kolkhose is Emmanuel Carrère’s deeply personal account of his mother, the distinguished historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, who died in 2023. The book explores their complicated relationship and the profound influence she exerted on Carrère’s personality and writing. Moving between family memory and self-reflection, Carrère considers love, death, mourning, and the ways writing becomes a means of understanding both those closest to us and ourselves.

The book group meets at the organizer's apartment. The directions, door code, telephone number, etc., are sent in the 7-day and 1-day reminder emails, following registration.


Two spaces are reserved for new WICE members. If no new WICE members have registered by five days prior to the meeting, those two spaces will become available to the general WICE membership.

Registration for the October meeting opens on Saturday, 19 September.

Good to know: 

  • WICE members can register for this event online using WICE's fast and secure online system. Simply click on the link and follow directions.

  • Not a member? You may be able to join some events as a nonmember for a small fee which includes a 3-month membership. Please send an email to wice@wice-paris.org if you have questions. We look forward to talking with you.