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Availability:In StockContributor:Pascal Quignard, Chris Turner (Translator)Series:The Seagull Library of French LiteraturePublish date:2024-03-07Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seagull BooksISBN-13:9781803093659ISBN-10:180309365XUPC:9781803093659Book Category:FictionSize:7.95 x 5.04 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC28EJB1AZ
A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death.

The first book in Pascal 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. The whole, written in a musical style not far removed from that of Couperin, whose piano composition Les Ombres errantes lends the book its title, coheres into a work of literature that reverberates in the psyche long after one has laid it down.

The Roving Shadows is a rare and wondrous tour de force that cements Quignard's reputation in contemporary world literature. Available now in English, this boldly adventurous work will find a new and welcoming audience.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seagull BooksISBN-13:9781803093659ISBN-10:180309365XUPC:9781803093659Book Category:FictionSize:7.95 x 5.04 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC28EJB1AZ
Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty titles and is widely regarded as one of the foremost literary French writers today. In 2002, he won France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with The Roving Shadows, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize.
Publisher: Seagull Books

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