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The night falls in Vienna and in the apartment of Franz Ritter, the musicologist who has been totally fascinted by the East. In vain he seeks for the redemption of sleep, lost in memories and recollections, in melancholy and fever, as he contemplates his life, his transformational excitements, innumerable chance encounters and his long journeys outside of Austria – Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, Palmyra , Tehran.
The night falls in Vienna and in the apartment of Franz Ritter, the musicologist who has been totally fascinted by the East. In vain he seeks for the redemption of sleep, lost in memories and recollections, in melancholy and fever, as he contemplates his life, his transformational excitements, innumerable chance encounters and his long journeys outside of Austria – Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, Palmyra , Tehran. And there is also his love for Sarah who haunts him, Sarah the ideal, the elusive, the dreamy, who has embraced the fatal attraction of the Almighty East on the western adventurers, scientists, travelers, and artists. “This long journey begins in Vienna and brings us to the shores of the Chinese Sea; through Franzes’ dreams and Sarah’s wanderings, I wanted to honor those who, from the West to the East, were so charmed from the diversity that they dove into the languages, cultures or music that they discovered, sometimes until they lost their body and soul ” – Mathias Énard Goncourt Prize 2015
The greatness of the East.
This exuberant writer signs with “Compass” a novel haunted by the human tragedy that is devouring Syria. The new Balzac.
A white night beside a compass that never shows the north.
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Mathias Énard
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