French List #: The Fount of Time

The Last Kindom II

French List #: The Fount of Time
Chris Turner, Pascal Quignard
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Hardback
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14 Jul 2021 UK
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9780857428493
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"Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away. " So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book series, Last Kingdom. In the latest volume, The Fount of Time, he focuses on the paradoxically immediate presence in our lives of the deepest, most distant past. He explores this subject through a multitude of mediums: fragments of autobiography; curious folktales; literary snippets; historical anecdotes both classical and modern; ruminations on biology, archaeology, and linguistics. Using all of these forms, he confronts dimensions of human experience which, though customarily conveyed in legend, myth, and dreams, run somehow beneath the everyday world and yet are part of our most tangible reality. To enter Quignard' s horizonless time-space is to embrace a rich vision in which the totality of human history and culture is placed disconcertingly on a single footing. In The Fount of Time we are able to glimpse-whether through obscure cultural detail or unusual anecdote-"another world beneath the world. "

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A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch
Abysses
Abysses
Andre Gorz: A Life
Attachment
Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths
Bliss
Crime of Jean Genet, The
Critical Essays - Volume 1, 1944-1948
Fount of Time, The: The Last Kindom II
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French List: Ecologica
French List: Philosophy of Living, The
French List: Red Scarf, The: Followed by Two Stages and Additional Notes
French List: Rome, 1630: The Horizon of Early Baroque and Other Essays
French List: Rue Traversiere
French List: Someone's Trying to Find You
French List: Suspended Passion, The: Interviews
French List: Tomb(e)
House of Shadows
Hypnos
Last Days of Mandelstam, The
Legend, The
Literary Miniatures
Little Grey Lies
Mysterious Solidarities
Occasional Philosophical Writings
On American Fiction
On Bataille and Blanchot
On Camus
On Merleau-Ponty
On Modern Art
On Novels and Novelists
On Poetry
On Revolution
Paper Collage
Political Fictions
Post-War Reflections
Privy Portrait
Real and Its Double, The
Red Sofa, The
Roissy
Roving Shadows, The
Season of the Shadow
Sex and Terror
Silent Crossing, The
Silent Transformations, The
Three Rimbauds, The
Tristan
Twilight of Torment: Melancholy
Typhus (Play)
Venice and Rome
Villa Amalia
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Pascal Quignard is one of France' s most eminent living writers. He is the author of several books, including All the World' s Mornings and Roving Shadows. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German.
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ISBN-13: 9780857428493
Published: 14 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 342

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