In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthals despondent Lord Chandos In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthals Lord Chandos Letter articulated a deep crisis of faith in language. Having lost completely th...Lasīt vairāk
A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish sh...Lasīt vairāk
A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quignards Last Kingdom series, The Roving Shadows can be read as a long meditation on...Lasīt vairāk
A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. Dying of Thinking is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignards Last Kingdom series. It explores three themes: how thou...Lasīt vairāk
A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting. In Pascal Quignards writing, philology hunts for wild game in a dark forest. The Unsaddled, which features horses as its central figure, is no exception. Taking off from puns,...Lasīt vairāk
A novel of intersecting historical threads.The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagnes daughter Bertha. The studious and scholarly Nithard succeeds his father Angilbert as la...Lasīt vairāk
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 mon...Lasīt vairāk
When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Bri...Lasīt vairāk
Etienne De La Boetie, Francine Markovits, Pascal Quignard, James C Scott, Malcolm Smith, Malcolm Smith, Michel Magnien, Charles Teste, Miguel Abensour, Arlette Jouanna...
Penseur meteorique, auteur dune hypothese aussi subversive que scandaleuse, Etienne de La Boetie est age de dix-huit ans lorsquil ecrit un texte que son ami Montaigne intitulera plus tard Discours de la servitude volontaire et auquel les calviniste...Lasīt vairāk
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,&; bu...Lasīt vairāk
Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn’t telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house in the Paris suburbs, where he disappears inside with an unknown woman. But before she can e...Lasīt vairāk
