Roving Shadows, The

Roving Shadows, The
Chris Turner, Pascal Quignard
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1 Sep 2021 UK
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9780857426659
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There are few if any voices more distinct in contemporary French literature than that of Pascal Quignard, a prolific writer of rare erudition and elegance. Essayist, critic, translator, novelist, and musician, Quignard attempts here an ambitious amalgam of his many artistic styles in a fragmentary work that defies the idea of genre. And his daring was rewarded in 2002 when "The Roving Shadows" became the first non-novel in more than sixty years to win the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award. This first book in Quignard's "Last Kingdom" series, "The Roving Shadows" can be read as a long meditation on reading and writing that strives to situate these otherwise innocuous activities in a profound relationship to sex and death. Writing and reading can in fact be linked to our animal natures and artistic strivings, to primal forces and culturally persistent fascinations. With dexterity and inventiveness, Quignard weaves together historical anecdotes, folktales from the East and West, fragments of myth, and speculative historical reconstructions.

A Cage in Search of a Bird
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
French List: Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
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 the author of over sixty books, including Le Salon du Wurtemberg, Les Escaliers de Chambord, and Sex and Terror, the last also published by Seagull Books. He is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.
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ISBN-13: 9780857426659
Published: 1 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 264

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