This slender novel is set in motion by the strange circumstances surrounding a death, but it is more concerned with the enigma of memory and self.
As Harrison, who himself endured the horrors of the Great War, grows increasingly obsessed with the enigma that is Reiner, his marriage begins to crumble.
Mr. Maazel closed the concert with the "Enigma" Variations, finding an invitation to abandon the subtlety he had brought to the Mendelssohn and Mozart works.
"While the former is left with wood and ashes as the sole objects of his analysis, the latter is concerned only with the enigma of the flame itself".
She and I offered each other tastes of the sandwiches and fruit we had brought from home, and struggled with the enigma of the case: she couldn't have done it and she must have done it.
When Gille was in her 50s, still wrestling with the enigma of her mother, she wrote an exquisite fictional autobiography, "Le Mirador," in Némirovsky's imagined first-person voice, bringing to the forefront the Russian background Némirovsky herself had scanted.
"All novels, of every age, are concerned with the enigma of the self … If I locate myself outside the so-called psychological novel, that does not mean that I wish to deprive my characters of an interior life.
But we do know from the book he left unfinished that Michael's text serves as a map and inspiration indispensable to the lover of painting – scholar or passionate amateur – who stares in wonder at Las Meninas or any painting which grapples with the enigma of representation.
Turing's work helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
Turing's work during World War II helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
Researchers and managers have struggled with "the enigma of missing N" for over four decades (Allison 1955; Van Breemen et al. 2002).
