Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell, Open Letter (Univ. of Nebraska, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (517p) ISBN 978-1-934824-26-9 Homeric in its scope and grandeur, remarkable in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Having begun working on a book about a fictional East German mathematician, Mathias Énard found that the war in ...

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar. By Dustin Illingworth Dustin Illingworth has written for The New York Review of Books, The New ...

There is probably no rhetorical device more favored by literary critics in the past decade than forecasting the death or rebirth of the contemporary novel. Among the form’s devotees there is often a ...

Mathias Énard’s new novel, “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” considers the jumble of life in a variety of stories and styles. By Martin Riker Martin Riker’s most recent novel is “The ...

A scholar of both Arabic and Persian, Enard’s ninth published work explores the thoughts of an insomniac Austrian musicologist as he lies at wake at night reminiscing and reflecting on a variety of ...

“The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” the first novel published by Mathias Énard since he won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2015 for “Compass,” is his second-longest novel, and you ...

Énard wins Prix Goncourt for Boussole, described as ‘poetic eulogy to the long history of cultural exchanges between east and west’ France’s oldest and most prestigious literary accolade, the Prix ...

Compass. By Mathias Enard. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions; 464 pages $26.95. Fitzcarraldo Editions; £14.99. “THE East is a career,” wrote Disraeli in his novel “Tancred”. Lately, the ...