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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.

Table of Contents:
1. (The Young German Woman) 2. (The Shadow of Sexual Bliss) 3. (The tertium) 4. (Buddhas of Bamiyan) 5. Nordstrand 6. (We) 7. The Nursling 8. (Last Kingdom) 9. The Ewer 10. (The Absent One) 11. Cras 12. (The Horse) 13. The Bark 14. (The Dark Sky) 15. Shadows 16. List from the Year 2001 17. (Television) 18. On the Arrest of Monsieur de Saint-Cyran on 14 May 1638 19. (Pluto) 20. (Mogador) 21. The Snuffers 22. (Ubi) 23. (The Region of Dawn) 24. (Dawn Mist) 25. (Banks of the Yonne) 26. The Immortal King of the Ages 27. Saint Bartholomew’s Day 28. Last Farewell 29. Han Yu 30. The Vestals 31. (Mud) 32. Churches of Leyden 33. Post tenebras 34. Perditos 35. (The Keep at Vincennes) 36. The Barefoot Teacher 37. Terror 38. (The Bassin du Roi at Le Havre) 39. (Saint-Cyran) 40. (Lancelot) 41. (Monsieur de Merveilleux) 42. The Brouette 43. (Monasteries) 44. (Going from Bergheim to Frankfurt) 45. (Dream) 46. (The Hunter) 47. Emily 48. History 49. (Right of Asylum) 50. (Shoreline) 51. On the River that Flows into the Flowers 52. (Marc Antoine Charpentier) 53. The Other Kingdom 54. (Kingdom of Jerusalem) 55. Sofiius’ End Translator’s Notes

About the Author :
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781803093659
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: The Seagull Library of French Literature
  • Weight: 286 gr
  • ISBN-10: 180309365X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


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