Description |
447 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
Originally published in French as Boussole by Acres Sud in 2015 (verso of title page). |
Contents |
On the divers forms of lunacie in the orient -- Orientalists in love -- Caravan of cross-dressers -- Gangrene & tuberculosis -- Portraits of Orientalists as Commanders of the Faithful -- Encyclopedia of the decapitated. |
Summary |
"As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East"--Amazon.com. |
Language |
Translated from the French. |
Subject |
Dreams -- Fiction.
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Insomniacs -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Philosophical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Added Author |
Mandell, Charlotte, translator.
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Added Title |
Boussole. English
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Translation Of: |
Translation of: Énard, Mathias, 1972- Boussole. 1re édition. Arles : Actes Sud, 2015 9782330053123 (DLC) 2015484946 (OCoLC)919467107 |
ISBN |
9780811226622 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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081122662X (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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