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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Set between the 16th and 22nd centuries, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a work of political comedy, fixated on class, climate, food, wine, and the afterlife. Set between the 16th and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mathias Enard’s first novel published in English, “Zone” (2010), takes the form of a 500-page-long sentence, the internal monologue of a French Croatian spy on a train to the Vatican to sell a trove ...

Imagine if you told someone you were going to write an entire book -- 150,000 words -- that would be one single sentence. That’s what Mathias Énard did in “Zone,” which, despite its avant-garde form, ...

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 ...

Michelangelo doesn’t want a fiefdom in the Balkans; he wants cold, hard ducats. It is 1506, and “Il Divino” is in Constantinople at the invitation of Bayezid II. The Ottoman ruler has commissioned a ...

The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice is delighted to announce the appointment of Kimberly Enard to the James R. Kimmey, M.D., M.P.H., Endowed Chair in Public Health.