Compass

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 as an Orientalist.

About the author

Mathias Énard, geboren 1972 in Niort (Westfrankreich), Studium der Kunstgeschichte und der orientalischen Sprachen, lebt, nach längeren Aufenthalten im Nahen Osten, heute in Barcelona, wo er Arabisch lehrt.

Summary

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 as an Orientalist.

Product details

• Authors: Mathias Enard, Mathias Énard
• Assisted by: Charlotte Mandell (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.03.2017
• EAN: 9781910695234
• ISBN: 978-1-910695-23-4
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Belletristik in Übersetzung, Französische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung