Mathias Enard: «Desertion has value; “If they catch you, they can shoot you.”

2024-10-09 02:29:00
Two apparently asymmetrical characters, an eminent German mathematician deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1941 and an unnamed soldier who deserts from a war who could be anyone, no one in particular but all at the same time, coincide in the pages of ‘Desert‘ ( Random House), novel with which Mathias Enard (Niort, France, 1972) takes to the battlefield to “tell in a very simple way what the 20th century was like” and highlight the absurdity of wars, of all wars . A hymn to life and a celebration of the poetry of mathematics with which Enard, winner of the Goncourt in 2015 with ‘Compass’, dismantles the story in block letters to recompose it from…
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