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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With divisive rhetoric spouting these days from every direction, Mathias Énard's magnificent "Compass" has appeared on our shores at precisely the right time. It's a novel that looks closely at the ...

“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 ...

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, ...