Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
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Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Nard
Michelangelo's adventure in Constantinople, from the mesmerizing (New Yorker) and masterful (Washington Post) author of Compass
"All of Énard's books share the hope of transposing prose into the empyrean of pure sound, where words can never correspond to stable meaningsHe's the composer of a discomposing age." -- Joshua Cohen - New York Times Book Review
"Énard weaves an imaginative and suspenseful tale of civilizations and personalities clashing, of love, of being an artist in a violent era." -- Juan Vidal - NPR
"There is a lush materiality to Énard’s prose, thick and smooth, so that following the artist’s expeditions through Ottoman opium dens feels nearly as immersive as being in them." -- The New York Times
"Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (deftly translated, like Énard’s three previous English releases, by Charlotte Mandell) is a tale of bastard genius that might have been, and a cautionary fable about the consequences of parochial timidity." -- Julian Lucas - The New Yorker
"Énard weaves an imaginative and suspenseful tale of civilizations and personalities clashing, of love, of being an artist in a violent era." -- Juan Vidal - NPR
"There is a lush materiality to Énard’s prose, thick and smooth, so that following the artist’s expeditions through Ottoman opium dens feels nearly as immersive as being in them." -- The New York Times
"Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (deftly translated, like Énard’s three previous English releases, by Charlotte Mandell) is a tale of bastard genius that might have been, and a cautionary fable about the consequences of parochial timidity." -- Julian Lucas - The New Yorker
Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Zone, and Street of Thieves. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Flaubert, Proust, and Genet. In 2001 she received a translation prize from the Modern Language Association for her translation of Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot, in 2018 she won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard, and in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811228947 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811228940 |
| Title | Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants |
| Author | Mathias Enard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2019-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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