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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.  

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: (Jean de la Fontaine) Chapter 2: (The Disconnected Telephone) Chapter 3: (The Magnetic Poles of Time) Chapter 4: Ut sol Chapter 5: (Marthe) Chapter 6: (Württemburg Landscape) Chapter 7: The Seasons and the Sentences Chapter 8: (The Antiquated) Chapter 9: (On the Emperor Augustus) Chapter 10: Treatise on Antiquaries Chapter 11: Varro Chapter 12: Nostalgia Chapter 13: (Shakespeare) Chapter 14: Low C Chapter 15: (Fishing Expeditions at Bergheim) Chapter 16: (On the Blackness of Night) Chapter 17: Amaritudo Chapter 18: (Leaving) Chapter 19: (Pusan) Chapter 20: (On the Century Collapsed into the Abyss) Chapter 21: On Dead Time Chapter 22: Pisgah Chapter 23: (On Busoni) Chapter 24: (M.) Chapter 25: Crows Chapter 26: Ovid’s Pulsio Chapter 27: Treatise on the Sky Chapter 28: Primal Radiation Chapter 29: (Kant) Chapter 30: The Snail Chapter 31: (Yogindu) Chapter 32: Piano Chapter 33: The Solstitial Point Chapter 34: (Ad finem) Chapter 35: (Fons temporis) Chapter 36: (Mercury) Chapter 37: After the Event Chapter 38: Praesentia Chapter 39: Aunques es de noche Chapter 40: Dreams Chapter 41: On the Uffington White House Chapter 42: On Assuetude Chapter 43: The Countess of Flahaut Chapter 44: The Handkerchief of Joy Chapter 45: Story of the Woman Called the Grey One Chapter 46: (Fountainhead Men) Chapter 47: (The Round-dance) Chapter 48: On the Happy Ending Chapter 49: On Palaeolithic Guilt Chapter 50: Urvashi Chapter 51: (White Simca) Chapter 52: (Borders) Chapter 53: On ‘Backwards’ Chapter 54: Animals Chapter 55: On Force Chapter 56: The Unthinking Coming Through Chapter 57: The Fear of Forebears Chapter 58: (Invisible Cyclone) Chapter 59: Orpheus (1), Son of Oeagrus Chapter 60: Orpheus (2) Aornos Chapter 61: Orpheus (3) Recapitulatio Chapter 62: The Seven Circles of Zenchiku Chapter 63: Eos Chapter 64: (Nox) Chapter 65: (The 200-Inch Hale Telescope) Chapter 66: (The Earth) Chapter 67: (The Imagination) Chapter 68: Cur Chapter 69: Endymion of Elis Chapter 70: (Rogier van der Weyden) Chapter 71: (The Night of the Ages) Chapter 72: The Darkened Chapter 73: (Fatherland) Chapter 74: The One Whom Time Will Never Destroy Chapter 75: God Becomes Past Chapter 76: (Louis Cordesse) Chapter 77: On the Depth of Time Chapter 78: Chuang-Tzu’s Bird Chapter 79: (The Pont de Neuilly) Chapter 80: Modernity Chapter 81: Quitilian the Grammarian Chapter 82: (The Abyss of 1945) Chapter 83: The Traces of the Erstwhile Chapter 84: The Jagst Chapter 85: Reading Chapter 86: In Reading, the Eye Does Not See Chapter 87: Antique Hunting Chapter 88: Rhynia Chapter 89: Rome Chapter 90: Virgil Chapter 91: Red Translator’s Notes Translator’s Acknowledgement

About the Author :
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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857428707
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: The French List
  • Weight: 313 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0857428705
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


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