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Abysses
Pascal Quignard
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Description for Abysses
Hardback. Bringing his troubling, questing characters - souls who are fascinated by what preceded and conceived them, the author 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. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Pascal Quignard is an enigmatic author whose writings rove with great poise across the worlds of literary and artistic endeavour, classical and modern, across folk tale, myth and legend, and yet encapsulate moments of intense present experience, evoking with just a word or a phrase the sense of each moment's suffusion by an enormous cosmic past. Quignard's human beings are troubled, questing souls, fascinated always by the mystery of what preceded them and conceived them - in both the broadest and the narrowest possible senses. Abysses is part of Quignard's 'Last Kingdom' series, which the author himself has described ... Read more
Pascal Quignard is an enigmatic author whose writings rove with great poise across the worlds of literary and artistic endeavour, classical and modern, across folk tale, myth and legend, and yet encapsulate moments of intense present experience, evoking with just a word or a phrase the sense of each moment's suffusion by an enormous cosmic past. Quignard's human beings are troubled, questing souls, fascinated always by the mystery of what preceded them and conceived them - in both the broadest and the narrowest possible senses. Abysses is part of Quignard's 'Last Kingdom' series, which the author himself has described ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
The French List
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422446
SKU
V9780857422446
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About Pascal Quignard
Pascal Quignard was born at Le Havre in 1948. He became a reader for Gallimard at the age of 28, before going on to take over responsibility for editorial development at that famous publishing house. Two novels brought him initial fame as a novelist Le Salon du Wurtemberg (1986) and Les Escaliers de Chambord (1989). He became known to a ... Read more
Reviews for Abysses
'Pascal Quignard is undoubtedly the most iconoclastic of contemporary French authors.' - Catherine Argand, journalist with the magazine Lire 'Pascal Quignard forthrightly advances profound ideas that challenge the way people approach the world.' - Brian Libgober, Three Percent