Compass
By: Mathias Énard ; translated by Charlotte Mandell
Contributors: Mandell, Charlotte, translator
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780811226622
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction; Insomniacs; Dreams; Memory
Work titles: Boussole
Description: "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"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Boussole.
Table of contents: title: On the divers forms of lunacie in the orient; title: Orientalists in love; title: Caravan of cross-dressers; title: Gangrene & tuberculosis; title: Portraits of Orientalists as Commanders of the Faithful; title: Encyclopedia of the decapitated.