The Deserters by Mathias Enard | Book Review
Mathias Énard’s The Deserters, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell, is an unsettling novel about the impossibility of leaving completely: of escaping a country, a political ideal, a family, a war, or even a history that has already become part of who we are. Énard brings together two stories […]
Compass by Mathias Enard | Book Review
Mathias Énard’s Compass is one of the most intellectually stimulating novels I have ever read: a hypnotic, melancholic, and erudite meditation on memory, history, love, and cultural identity. Part love story, part cultural essay, and part insomniac stream of consciousness, the novel transforms a single sleepless night in Vienna into […]