Author: Mathias Énard

Cites

• Ezra Pound (1)
  • IN: Zone (2008) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up mast and sail on that swart ship, Board sheep aboard her, and our bodies also
    FROM: Canto I, (1925), Poem, US
• Yehuda Amichai (1)
  • IN: Zone (2008) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Jerusalem and I are like a blind man and a cripple: She sees for me As far as the Dead Sea, as far as the end of days. I carry her on my shoulders And, under her, I walk in the shadows.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Israel
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Street of Thieves (2012) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind." "Here!" I interrupted. "You can never tell! Here I met Mr. Kurtz."
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, England/Poland
• Willhelm Müller & Franz Schubert (1)
  • IN: Compass (2015) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Die Augen schlief's ich wieder, Noch schlägt das Herz so warm. Wann grünt ihr Blätter am Fenster? Wann halt' ich mein Liebchen im Arm? Once more I try to close my eyes, yet my heart beats strong and warm -- when will the leaves at my window turn green, when will I hold my darling in my arms?
    FROM: Die Winterreise, (1828), Song, Germany