Books by Mathias Énard
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review 1: "Često poželimo ponoviti prošlost, iznova proživjeti minuli trenutak, vratiti se propuštenoj gesti ili neizgivorenoj riječi; trudimo se pronaći zvukove koji su nam zapeli u grlu, nježnost koju se nismo usudili pokazati, zauvijek iščezlo stezanje u grudima". ...
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review 1: "Zone" refers here to the narrator's zone of operation: an area we might call the "Mediterranean rim," most notably Barcelona, Venice, Trieste, Croatia, Salonika, Istanbul, Beirut, Jerusalem, Algiers, Tangier, etc. The narrator, Francis Mirkovic is a French-Croat fascist and an...
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review 1: A partir de matéria histórica, alguma dela resultado de descoberta recente, Mathias Énard ficciona uma estadia de três meses, em Constantinopla, do grande renascentista Miguel Ângelo.No meio da Istambul cosmopolita de quinhentos, enxameada de nostálgicos refugiados de Granada, cr...
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review 1: A wonderful, poetic text based on true, mostly ignored facts: the great sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti was asked by the powerful sultan Bajazet to build a bridge across the Bosphorus to connect both sides of Istanbul...The proposal came after the rejection of the plans delivere...