| Abysses Contributor(s): Quignard, Pascal (Author), Turner, Chris (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857422448 ISBN-13: 9780857422446 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848 |
| LCCN: 2015364976 |
| Series: French List |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.16" W x 8.24" (0.96 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration," but comes, rather, from a phase of his work in which the very concept of genre has been allowed to fall away, leaving an entirely modern, secular, and abnormal vision of the world. In Abysses, the newest addition to the series, Quignard brings us yet more of his troubling, questing characters--souls who are fascinated by what preceded and conceived them. He writes with a rich mix of anecdote and reflection, aphorism and quotation, offering enigmatic glimpses of the present, and confident, pointed borrowings from the past. But when he raids the murkier corners of the human record, he does so not as a historian but as an antiquarian. Quignard is most interested in the pursuit of those stories that repeat and echo across the seasons in their timelessness. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Chris: - Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated more than eighty books from French and German. Quignard, Pascal: - Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty books and is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. He has recently published the tenth volume of his celebrated Last Kingdom series. |