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(.) Carrère's labour of love is as good a place as any to start trying to understand the enigma of Philip K Dick" - Sean O'Hagan, The Observer (.) For all that, though, I am Alive and You are Dead is an intriguing read, well paced and packed with evidence of Dick's eccentricity, which was of the obsessive and neurotic kind, and must have made him impossible to be around for any length of time. "More ominously, there is nothing here in the way of an index or footnotes, none of the usual evidence of deep research that gives a biography the solid stamp of authority." - Charles Taylor, The New York Times Book Review (.) Was anything having to do with this book checked ? (.) (T)he convoluted theorizing and tortured plot recitations of I Am Alive and You Are Dead illuminate neither science fiction nor the literary legacy of Philip K. But the problems with I Am Alive and You Are Dead don't end with Carrère's fannish - and not always lucid - retelling of Dick's novels. "Rambling on while the reader sinks into catatonia, I Am Alive and You Are Dead (never was a book so aptly named) reads like a hyperadolescent spouting forth trippy what-ifs (.) A book that succeeds in rendering silly the body of work it sets out to celebrate already qualifies as a disaster.Simply for a good read, anybody - not just Dick fans - can safely pick up this book." - Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman Moreover, thanks to a fine translator, Carrere's narrative panache survives in English. This is a readable, intelligent and plausible evocation of Dick's inner world. "It has to be said that Carrere emerges triumphant from the process.By an irony of aptly Dickian proportions, this book's real value comes not so much in Carrère's vain attempts to penetrate the wilds of the author's psyche, as in the connections he makes between Philip K Dick's work and the counter-cultural milieu which sustained it." - Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday "Yet the harder he strives to boil down Dick's maverick genius to a conventional pathology of drug-induced paranoia and mental illness, the more stubbornly it resists such simplification."Emmanuel Carrère's I am Alive and You are Dead is remarkable-a depth charge, a CAT scan, and an exorcism." - John Leonard, Harper's."It's a shame this book contains no index and does not refer to the half-a-dozen or so other critiques and biographies of PKD, nor to interviews" - Michael Moorcock, The Guardian."Mr Carrère shows how Dick's tumultuous life story leaked on to the pages of his science-fiction novels." - The Economist.French title: Je suis vivant et vous êtes mortsī : breezy, entertaining biography of a very peculiar man.Yo estoy vivo y vosotros estáis muertos - España Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts - France Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts - Canada General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. I am Alive and You are Dead - Emmanuel Carrère