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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2017-03-28
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780811226622
- Book Title
- Compass
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Ã%nard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources--nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie--and binds them together in a most magical way.Â
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081122662x
ISBN-13
9780811226622
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038549462
Product Key Features
Book Title
Compass
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2705.N273b6813
Reviews
[A]s much an essay, a compendium, a rant and a polemic as it is a work of fiction. [...] This novel contains many books and all of their counter books. Ritter himself is a knot of contradiction [...] Compass is as challenging, brilliant, and--God help me--important a novel as is likely to be published this year., Comparisons of Compass with The Thousand and One Nights and with Proust (and Ritter thinks about both) are not only inevitable, but necessary., Énard's prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher on top of one another... can be mesmerizing. But it's the larger project of his writing that bears particular consideration: in his fiction, Énard is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world., Mr. Énard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling, hypnotic stream-of-consciousness narration. [...] So this sad yet invigorating novel is both a love letter to a vanishing discipline and an elegy. Franz's mental circumnavigations constitute a celebration of the civilizing power of knowledge and 'the beauty of sharing and diversity.', ""The cultural cross-pollination between east and west is explored in a tale that offers rare delights."", Compass is as challenging, brilliant, and--God help me--important a novel as is likely to be published this year., It's with no small amount of urgency that Mathias nard's Compass, an engrossing meditation on the cultural and historical tension between Europe and the Islamic world, arrives from New Directions in a gorgeous translation by Charlotte Mandell., Mathias nard has found a way to restore death to life and life to death, and so joins the first rank of novelists, the bringers of fire, who even as they can't go on, do., A novelist like Énard feels particularly necessary right now, though to say this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicist but an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us., In a time of fear and loathing, Énard's magnum opus points us toward the reality behind so many myths of the Orient., [H]is most far-reaching and accomplished book and one of the finest European novels in recent memory., A fever-dream meditation on East and West and a lost love that binds the two worlds... Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann's Death in Venice and Bowles' Sheltering Sky., Mr. Énard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling,hypnotic stream-of-consciousness narration. [...] So this sad yetinvigorating novel is both a love letter to a vanishing discipline andan elegy. Franz's mental circumnavigations constitute a celebration ofthe civilizing power of knowledge and 'the beauty of sharing anddiversity.', Mathias Énard has found a way to restore death to life and life to death, and so joins the first rank of novelists, the bringers of fire, who even as they can't go on, do., A fever-dream meditation on East and West and a lost love that binds the two worlds... Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann''''s Death in Venice and Bowles'''' Sheltering Sky., ""[H]is most far-reaching and accomplished book and one of the finest European novels in recent memory."", In this magisterial, exquisitely erudite novel, the insomniac meditations of the bedridden and lovelorn musicologist Franz Ritter take the reader on a vast, crisscrossing perambulation through the rich history of the commingling of Orient and Occident in the 19th and early 20th centuries., Compass is a novel for, more than of, our times, often comic but ultimately deeply serious... nard manages to make what is essentially this sleep-deprived protagonist''s monologue consistently entertaining--no wonder he can''t sleep, with all this bubbling in his mind..., A narrative of infinite detail and esoteric knowledge blurs the boundaries between traditional genres, with fiction shading into nonfiction, poetry bleeding into history., Richly written, baroquely observant, and so terrifyingly erudite in its dizzying display of knowledge that some readers might be overwhelmed, this propulsive work explores the meaning of the Orient and the Orientalist impulse in the West..., nard's prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher on top of one another... can be mesmerizing. But it's the larger project of his writing that bears particular consideration: in his fiction, nard is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world., "For all its sandstorm of scholarship, translated with tireless eloquence by Charlotte Mandell, Compass aches with that simple yearning. "Only love" of a person or a culture, thinks Franz under the stars of Syria, "opens us up to the other."", A novelist like nard feels particularly necessary right now, though to say this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicist but an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us., A fever-dream meditation on East and West and a lost love that binds the two worlds... Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann''s Death in Venice and Bowles'' Sheltering Sky., In a time of fear and loathing, nard's magnum opus points us toward the reality behind so many myths of the Orient., This astonishing, encyclopedic, and otherwise outré meditation by Énard on the cultural intersection of East and West takes the form of an insomniac's obsessive imaginings--dreams, memories, and desires--which come to embody the content of a life, or perhaps several.... [An] opium addict's dream of a novel., A fever-dream meditation on East and West and a lost love that binds the two worlds... Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann's Death in Venice and Bowles' Sheltering Sky., ""Compass is a novel about many things. At its surface it is about the pull of unmet dreams and ambitions. The falsities of love. But at the crux of this examination of a human life is the fabric of cultures intersecting--and in the truth that the pathos of grief exempts no one. "", Compass is a novel for, more than of, our times, often comic but ultimately deeply serious... nard manages to make what is essentially this sleep-deprived protagonist''''s monologue consistently entertaining--no wonder he can''''t sleep, with all this bubbling in his mind..., A novelist like Énard feels particularly necessary right now, though tosay this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicistbut an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us., For all its sandstorm of scholarship, translated with tireless eloquence by Charlotte Mandell, Compass aches with that simple yearning. 'Only love' of a person or a culture, thinks Franz under the stars of Syria, 'opens us up to the other.', Compass is a novel about many things. At its surface it is about the pull of unmet dreams and ambitions. The falsities of love. But at the crux of this examination of a human life is the fabric of cultures intersecting--and in the truth that the pathos of grief exempts no one., It's with no small amount of urgency that Mathias Énard's Compass, an engrossing meditation on the cultural and historical tension between Europe and the Islamic world, arrives from New Directions in a gorgeous translation by Charlotte Mandell., It's with no small amount of urgency that Mathias nard's Compass, an engrossing meditation on the cultural and historical tension between Europe and the Islamic world, arrives from New Directions in a gorgeous translation by Charlotte Mandell., "Mr. nard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling, hypnotic stream-of-consciousness narration. [...] So this sad yet invigorating novel is both a love letter to a vanishing discipline and an elegy. Franz's mental circumnavigations constitute a celebration of the civilizing power of knowledge and "the beauty of sharing and diversity."", A novelist like nard feels particularly necessary right now, though to say this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicist but an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us. If that doctored replica of Beethoven's compass stands as a fitting emblem of Ritter's work, a better one for nard's would be the compass that can be found in hotel rooms throughout the Islamic world, so that travelers can orient themselves for prayer., This astonishing, encyclopedic, and otherwise outr meditation by nard on the cultural intersection of East and West takes the form of an insomniac's obsessive imaginings--dreams, memories, and desires--which come to embody the content of a life, or perhaps several.... [An] opium addict's dream of a novel., Compass, in its relentlessly discursive impressiveness, embodies an uncompromising vision of the novel as relatively static political and cultural essay., Mr. nard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling, hypnotic stream-of-consciousness narration. [...] So this sad yet invigorating novel is both a love letter to a vanishing discipline and an elegy. Franz's mental circumnavigations constitute a celebration of the civilizing power of knowledge and 'the beauty of sharing and diversity.', Énard's prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher ontop of one another... can be mesmerizing. But it's the larger project ofhis writing that bears particular consideration: in his fiction, Énardis constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistentlymisunderstood part of the world.
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-039665
Dewey Decimal
843.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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