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Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (originale 2010; edizione 2019)

di Mathias Énard (Autore)

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"In 1506, Michelangelo -- young but already renowned sculptor -- is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II -- whose commission he leaves unfinished -- and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants -- constructed from real historical fragments -- is a story about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another"--… (altro)
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Titolo:Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
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  RachelGMB | Dec 27, 2023 |
El 13 de mayo de 1506 Michelangelo Buonarroti, el mítico Miguel Ángel, desembarcó en el puerto de Constantinopla con el objetivo de cumplir con un encargo del sultán Beyazid y, además, desafiar la autoridad del papa Julio II, por el cual se sentía despreciado.
Dicho encargo consiste en construir un puente que ha de pasar sobre el Cuerno de Oro y comunicar así dos fortalezas. En dicho proyecto también estuvo involucrado Leonardo da Vinci, sin embargo su diseño fue rechazado.
  Natt90 | Mar 9, 2023 |
"Night does not communicate with the day. It burns up in it. Night is carried to the stake at dawn. And its people along with it – the drinkers, the poets, the lovers…
You think you desire my beauty, the softness of my skin, the brilliance of my smile, the delicacy of my limbs, the crimson of my lips, but actually what you want without realizing it is for your fears to disappear, for healing, union, return, oblivion. This power inside you devours you in solitude.
So you suffer, lost in an infinite twilight, one foot in day and the other in night.”


The author, Mathias Enard, takes fragments of known history and actual documents and weaves them into a fictionalized tale of the sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Frustrated to the point of rage with Pope Julius II, who has failed to provide him funds for his commission to build the papal tomb, Michelangelo accepts an invitation from the Sultan of Constantinople, The Great Turk, to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. Promised great glory and exorbitant payment, Michelangelo travels to Constantinople, where he isolates himself, knowing nothing of the language or culture, while struggling to achieve inspiration for a bridge design. He is assigned a translator, a page, and the secretary-poet, Mesihi, to see to his needs. Enard portrays Michelangelo as brilliant, yet unwashed, self-absorbed, anxious and fearful, and prone to bouts of fury, while also captivated by the city’s architecture. The story of his efforts to design a bridge is ultimately overshadowed by intertwining narratives of his obsession with a mysterious, androgynous singer-dancer, Mesihi’s unspoken, selfless love for Michelangelo, and a dangerous, unsuspected conspiracy.

This is a short, suspenseful novel that is beautifully written. Every word feels carefully chosen. Its characters are masterfully drawn and while largely fictional, the plot feels imaginable. The mainly third-person narrative is occasionally interspersed with the first-person thoughts of the androgynous singer, in language and rhythms almost like poetry. I found this to be a spellbinding read, not for the importance of any themes, but simply for the superb writing.

The scarce documentation that supports Michelangelo’s time in Constantinople includes the Sultan’s invitation, a design sketch for the Golden Horn bridge, a list of the possessions he left behind upon his return to Florence, and letters to his brother and an architect friend. The Grand Turk and his Vizier, Ali Pasha, were real people, as was Mesihi of Prishtina.

[Street of Thieves] is the only other work I have read by Enard. This book felt to me like an entirely different author. I know that some do not care for fiction based on historical figures, but I highly recommend this book.
2 vota Linda92007 | Jan 31, 2022 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Enard-Parle-leur-de-batailles-de-rois-et-delephan...
> Le Monde (Julie Etienne, le 21 octobre 2010) : https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2010/10/21/parle-leur-de-batailles-de-rois...
> Critiques Libres : https://critiqueslibres.com/i.php/vcrit/24346
> Paperblog : https://www.paperblog.fr/4245185/parle-leur-de-batailles-de-rois-et-d-elephants-...
> Edith Perry, Multilinguales [En ligne], 8 | 2017, mis en ligne le 01 juin 2017, consulté le 19 janvier 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/multilinguales/375 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/multilinguales.375
> Mustapha Harzoune, Hommes & migrations [En ligne], 1289 | 2011, mis en ligne le 29 mai 2013, consulté le 19 janvier 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/hommesmigrations/825 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/hommesmigrations.825
> Elle (Augustin Trappenard) : https://www.elle.fr/Loisirs/Livres/Genre/Essai/Parle-leur-de-batailles-de-rois-e...
> Encres Vagabondes : http://www.encres-vagabondes.com/magazine/enard.htm
> Lecturissime ; http://www.lecturissime.com/article-parle-leur-de-batailles-de-rois-et-d-elephan...
> Voir un extrait : https://books.google.fr/books?id=WtpXGY-qQTYC&hl=fr&printsec=frontcover&...

> PARLE-LEUR DE BATAILLES, DE ROIS ET D’ÉLÉPHANTS, de Mathias Enard. — Michelangelo est un génie. Il le sait. Sculpteur sans égal, ambitieux, immense travailleur, d'une curiosité sans limites, avide de gloire et de richesse.
Contexte : nous sommes en mai 1506, à Istanbul ; il a été sollicité par le Grand Turc, Bayazid, pour concevoir un pont de 900 pieds qui traversera la Corne d'Or.
Cette histoire, bâtie à partir de plusieurs faits réels, nous fait vivre quelques mois de la longue vie de Michel-Ange. Exotisme garanti.
Il est question d'éléphants, de chevaux, d'amour, de parfums, de couleurs, de poésie, de danse et de sensualité. Michelangelo dessine. Il passe son temps de travail à dessiner des chevaux, des éléphants, des mains, des pieds, des astragales, et même un pont…
Ses préjugés s'émoussent : ce pont, majestueux, fin et puissant, pétri de la matière de la ville, est un symbole qui relie métaphoriquement nos oppositions, Orient et Occident, Istanbul et Constantinople, sobriété et ivresse, divertissement et travail, tolérance et raideur.
Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2010, un très beau roman qui traite de ce qui procède du mystère de la création. Éditions Actes Sud, 154 pages, août 2010, 17 €. (Jacques MARMEY)
Carnets du Yoga, (295), Mars 2011

> PARLE-LEUR DE BATAILLES, de rois et d'éléphants, par Mathias Enard. — "Parle-leur de Batailles, de Rois et d'Éléphants" est un roman écrit par l'auteur français Mathias Enard, publié en 2010. Il raconte une histoire fictive basée sur un épisode dans la vie du célèbre artiste italien de la Renaissance, Michel-Ange.
En 1506, le sultan ottoman Bayezid II a demandé à Michel-Ange de concevoir un pont pour traverser la Corne d'Or à Istanbul. Michel-Ange, à l'époque connu pour ses sculptures, se rend en Turquie pour réaliser ce projet ambitieux.
Dans ce roman, Enard décrit les défis intellectuels et culturels auxquels Michel-Ange est confronté en Turquie, notamment le contraste entre la culture ottomane et la culture chrétienne de l'Italie de la Renaissance.
Le livre offre également une réflexion sur la vie de l'artiste, mettant en lumière son amour pour l'art et la difficulté pour lui de concilier ce qu'il désire créer et ce que ses commanditaires attendent de lui.
"Parle-leur de Batailles, de Rois et d'Éléphants" est un roman historique fascinant, qui mêle aventures, personnages fascinants, réflexions sur l'art et les différences culturelles.
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  Joop-le-philosophe | Jan 16, 2022 |
Not up to the standards of Compass, but perfectly readable and intelligent on the question of art and power; it actually got me interested in Michaelangelo, which isn't nothing. The disastrous trash of Street of Thieves does show up here, in the extended 'love' scenes; someone needs to tell Enard that he can't and shouldn't try to write romance or sex. If he just stuck to history, ideas, and emotions, he'd be fantastic. Luckily, there's enough of the latter here to keep me engaged, and to nudge me back towards trying Zone. ( )
  stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |
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"In 1506, Michelangelo -- young but already renowned sculptor -- is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II -- whose commission he leaves unfinished -- and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants -- constructed from real historical fragments -- is a story about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another"--

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