Who better than Mathias Énard, the 43-year-old translator from Arabic and Farsi and great connoisseur of the Middle-East, could embody the solidarity with the Muslim world and emancipation from the Western ethnocentric outlook the Goncourt jury sails by?
Boussole, by Mathias Énard, Actes Sud, 400 pages
Énard's Boussole (Compass) resolutely points east. “Incredible! I am just back from Algiers and Beirut, I am simply delighted!” Mathias Énard said on arriving at the Drouant restaurant, the (...)
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