#RivetingReviews: Tom Taylor reviews THE DESERTERS by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
Mathias Énard is the defining novelist of Schengen-era Europe: its most lyrical cartographer and its fiercest critic. His proto-modernist works feature the transnational destinies
Tue 30 October 2018, 18:30 – 21:00, Caravansérail, 5 Cheshire Street, London E2 6ED, free entry (register here) Come to Caravansérail for the book launch of award-winning Fren
Another novel by Enard that creates a world that you don’t want to leave. A thoughtful interrogation of modern academic Orientalism, with a wealth of delightful historical facts
If you are looking for a coherent plot, this book is not for you. Mathias Enard’s Zone consists of one 500-word sentence containing the thoughts of Francis Mirković, who was for
Mathias Enard and Dževad Karahasan present a sympathetic, albeit contrasting view of the Orient and of Oriental culture. This is one reason why they have been frequent guests at t
In his novel Compass, the well-travelled polyglot and writer Mathias Enard develops a counter-programme to the populist mainstream of being ‘anti-’open borders. The two main c
It’s literary awards time – this week is France’s most important season for literary accolades. The Prix Goncourt goes to Mathias Enard for his novel Boussole and not to Alge
