RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Emmanuel Carrère is now thought to be France’s \'greatest living writer\' ... If someone were to set their sights on becoming the foremost writer in France, it wouldn’t harm their chances if their mother were the head of the Académie française – the body that defines how we are supposed to use the French language – for the last twenty-four years of her life. Happily, Carrère owes his eminence not to nepotism, but to talent.
