Abysses

Pascal Quignard, Chris Turner

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Seagull Books London Ltd
01 September 2022

Literature: history & criticism

Series: The French List

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.

By: Pascal Quignard
Translated by: Chris Turner
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 313g
ISBN: 9780857428707
ISBN 10: 0857428705
Series: The French List
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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, including, for Seagull Books, titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Andre Gorz, Yves Bonnefoy, and Pascal Quignard, among others.

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Abysses

Pascal Quignard, Chris Turner

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