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Mathias Énard

Born

in Niort, France

January 11, 1972

Genre

Fiction

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Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.

Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts.

Énard lives and works in Barcelona, where he teaches Arabic at the ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 10,373 ratings · 1,503 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 4,247 ratings — published 2010 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compass by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 2,300 ratings — published 2015 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 1,287 ratings — published 2012 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zone by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Brian Evenson (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2008 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il banchetto annuale della confraternita dei becchini 3.42 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2020 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Alcool et la Nostalgie 3.56 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Perfection du tir by Mathias Énard, Actes Sud (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorință by Mathias Énard, Cristian Fulaș (Translator) 3.16 avg rating — 134 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remontando el Orinoco 3.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bréviaire des artificiers by Mathias Énard, Pierre Marquès (Illustrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mathias Énard (?)

“Night does not communicate with the day. It burns up in it. Night is carried to the stake at dawn. And its people along with it—the drinkers, the poets, the lovers. We are a people of the banished, of the condemned.”
― Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

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“A pošto su to deca, pričaj im o bitkama
i kraljevima, đavolima, slonovima i
anđelima, ali ne zaboravi da im pričaš
o ljubavi i sličnim stvarima.

(epigraf, Radjard Kipling - Životna smetnja)”
― Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

tags: ljubav

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“Beauty comes from abandoning the refuge of the old forms for the uncertainty of the present.”
― Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

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The Nix by Nathan Hill

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Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

9 votes, 25.7%

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

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Imperium by Christian Kracht

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Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan

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Zone by Mathias Énard

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