The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, after the summer period, resumes its reading club Tres con libros (Three with books) and does so with the work Compass by the French writer, journalist and translator, Mathias Enardfor which he won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2015.
Compass'. Mathias Enard (Random House Literature, 2016)
"In his flat in Vienna, as the snow begins to fall over the city, the renowned musicologist Franz Ritter recalls all that he has lived and learned while his thoughts fly to Istanbul, Aleppo, Palmyra, Damascus or Teheran, places that have marked his intellectual and sentimental biography.
During this sleepless night, friends and loves, musicians and cursed writers, travellers and adventurous women of uncertain origin and destiny, all touched by the spell of the Middle East, pass through his mind. Of all of them, it is Sarah who occupies his deepest thoughts: for twenty years Franz has been in love with this woman, with whom he has shared an intense relationship marked by travel and oriental culture.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, this nocturnal, evocative and musical novel, with generous erudition and bittersweet humour, is a journey and a declaration of love, a search for the Other in us and an outstretching of the hand to build a bridge between East and West, between yesterday and tomorrow, in this present so fragile for both worlds". (Random House Literature).
Mathias Enard (Niort, France, 1972). After studying Arabic and Persian and spending long periods in the Middle East, he settled in Barcelona in 2000. A member of the editorial board of the magazine 'Inculte' in Paris, in 2005 he was elected writer-in-residence at the prestigious Villa Medici in Rome. He has taught Arabic at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Enard is the author of the novels 'La perfección del Tiro' (Reverso, 2004), 'Remontando el Orinoco' (La Otra Orilla, 2006), 'El manual del perfecto terrorista' (La Otra Orilla, 2007), 'Zona' (La Otra Orilla, 2008), 'Habladles de batallas, de reyes y elefantes' (Literatura Random House, 2011), 'El alcohol y la nostalgia' (Literatura Random House, 2012) and 'Calle de los Ladrones' (Street of Thieves). (Random House Literature', 2013). He has won several prizes, including the Prix de la Francophonie 2004, the Prix Décembre, the Prix du Livre Inter, the Prix Goncourt des Étudiants in 2010 and the Prix Goncourt 2015 for 'Compass', his latest novel (Literatura Random House).
READING PROGRAMME
Friday, 9 September 2016*.
Delivery of the copy.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016*.
18.00 h. Reading club session. Sharing of the work and exchange of ideas. We will be joined by journalist and writer Alejandro Luque via Skype to share his reading impressions with the audience.
Wednesday, 5 October 2016*.
Conversation with Mathias Enard
19.30h. Three Cultures Foundation
More information in this link.
Link to the invitation card in this link.
*Dates subject to change depending on the needs of the club.
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- How to join the Three with Books book club.
- The library of Tres Culturas has a lot of 30 copies of this title for collective loan.
- In our libraryspecialised you can find all the works of Mathias Enard published in English.
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