Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix
Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and
shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Tell Them
of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Zone, and Street of Thieves.
Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Claude
Lanzmann, Boualem Sansal, Virginie Despentes, Jean-Baptiste Del
Amo, and many others.
"All of Énard’s books share the hope of transposing prose into the
empyrean of pure sound, where words can never correspond to stable
meanings. He’s the composer of a discomposing age."
*Joshua Cohen - The New York Times Book Review*
"Énard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling,
hypnotic, stream-of-consciousness narration."
*Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal*
"In Mathias Enard’s magnificent new novel, they banish the ghosts
by feasting on a grand, Rabelaisian scale.Through a meal that takes
in innumerable courses, boisterously parodic speeches and
industrial quantities of fermented grape juice, Enard guides the
reader through a history of eloquence, which runs from Boethius to
Bossuet, and a story of the French palate that leaves no dish
unturned."
*Irish Times*
"There is a capricious divinity at work here, and his name is
Énard."
*Jeremy Lybarger - 4columns*
"The real story becomes history, the fluidity of time, the
democratizing powers of death, and — through a stew of Buddhist,
Christian and Islamic philosophies — the cyclical jumble of
life. This is Énard at his best..."
*Martin Riker - The New York Times*
"A feast of pathos and pleasure, and a shimmering argument for the
interconnectedness of everything."
*The New Yorker*
"Cosmic melody—sometimes rhapsodic, sometimes dissonant or
atonal—orchestrates the novel, binding the disparate characters
into loose networks of karmic reciprocation and rebirth."
*Dustin Illingworth - The Nation*
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