I am alive book6/6/2023 ''I Am Alive and You Are Dead'' can best be understood as an alternate version of the scene in ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' where Hulce plays a college freshman getting stoned for the first time. He looked like the actor Tom Hulce, and after I realized that, the book fell into place. With his goofy rictus of a grin and his dark, wary eyes, Carrère reminded me of someone, but who? Then it came to me. Dick, I kept flipping back to the author photo. While reading ''I Am Alive and You Are Dead,'' Emmanuel Carrère's - what word will suffice? - imagining of the life and mental state of Philip K.
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