Mathias Enard

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatized mother cowers in their flat. But the violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with her soon threatens to push them all into the abyss. Now appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enard’s debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalized mind in spare, unflinching prose.

Premio Albert Camus 2022 Una prospecci n en lo m s profundo de los limbos del alma. El dolor despierta ante lo irrevocable. Un viaje vital inmenso, indispensable .Xavier Houssin, Le Monde Ignacio y Yuri buscan a tientas una verdad que justifique su existencia en un verano abrasador en el que Par s parece haberse vaciado. Yuri opera bajo la atenta mirada de Joana, la joven enfermera que Ignacio desea. Uno de ellos se deja arrastrar por la pasi n mientras el otro se rinde a los pies del alcohol y la locura. Ambos instar n a Joana a huir, a iniciar un viaje que la llevar a Venezuela: remontar el Orinoco significar para ella la oportunidad de recomponer, desde las tibias entra as de un barco de carga, sus deshilachadas vidas. Al hilo de ese viaje hacia el Amazonas, la segunda novela de Mathias Enard, adem s de confirmar su talento literario, nos sit a en el centro de un tri ngulo amoroso que se desborda, cuyos v rtices son el nacimiento, el cuerpo y el deseo... siendo quiz esas tres cosas meros reflejos en las aguas empantanadas de un r o m tico.

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness--he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows between these two narrative threads, and--pulled together in Mathias nard's enchanting, brilliant, erudite prose--time itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.

Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-right Croatian militia in the 1990s.

WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents.But what David doesn't yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions, Death leads a dance: when one thing perishes, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human, or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. And once a year, Death and the living observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language.Brimming with Mathias nard's characteristic wit and encyclopedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess.

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around on his moped to interview local residents. Unbeknownst to David, in these nondescript lands, once theatres of wars and revolutions, Death leads the dance. When an existence ends, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. Only once a year do Death and the living observe a temporary truce, during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, libations and language. Brimming with Mathias Enard’s characteristic wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess – and a paradoxically macabre paean to life’s richness.

Molodoj issledovatel otpravljaetsja iz shumnogo Parizha v dalekuju frantsuzskuju glubinku. On mechtaet v podrobnostjakh izuchit selskij byt i nravy mestnykh zhitelej. Provodnikom po tropam Bolot stanovitsja mestnyj mer. Za maskoj obydennosti geroju otkrojutsja smeshnye i strashnye tajny. Ved dazhe ego vozhatyj po sovmestitelstvu i prizvaniju esche i glavnyj grobovschik, molodoj kaban - vmestilische dushi mestnogo abbata, a derevenskij duren - istinnyj providets... I vse oni podchineny vechnomu prevrascheniju sudeb, neumolimomu Kolesu, krugovorotu zhizni i smerti. Tolko raz v godu ono ostanavlivaetsja, i Smert beret peredyshku. Togda i sobirajutsja na svoj ezhegodnyj pir chleny Pogrebalnogo bratstva, chtoby obsudit nasuschnye voprosy i vosslavit Zhizn - napolnjaja svoi zheludki snedju, vypivaja litry vina i oglushaja zastolnymi rechami! Oni-to tochno znajut vsjo o mire i cheloveke. Izyskannyj, bogatyj kulturnymi i istoricheskimi alljuzijami, mestami gomericheski smeshnoj, rablezianski nasyschennyj, mestami psikhologicheski pronzitelnyj tekst Matiasa Enara - nastojaschee literaturnoe pirshestvo.Perevodchik: Beljak Alla

"Sovershennyj vystrel" -roman-ispoved molodogo snajpera.Roman-tragedija, v kotorom prisutstvujut katarsis i rokovye obstojatelstva, peremalyvajuschie ljudskie sudby.Roman-pritcha, vne vremeni i prostranstva, dejstvie kotorogo mozhet proiskhodit v ljuboj strane, gde est more, gory i idet vojna.Poezija v proze s zavorazhivajuschim ritmom povestvovanija."Postoronnij" Kamju, zhivuschij v nashem vremeni.

In 1506, Michelangelo--a young but already renowned sculptor--is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design was rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II--whose commission he leaves unfinished--and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants--constructed from real historical fragments--is a thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched fragments, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design was rejected: 'You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal.' Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II – whose commission he leaves unfinished – and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants – constructed from real historical fragments – is a thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

In 1506, Michelangelo--a young but already renowned sculptor--is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal."Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II--whose commission he leaves unfinished--and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants--constructed from real historical fragments--is a story about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.