The Fount of Time: (Last Kindom II) - Couverture rigide

Quignard, Pascal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857428497 ISBN 13 : 9780857428493

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

"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 monumental book series, Last Kingdom. In the latest volume, The Fount of Time, he focuses on the paradoxically immediate presence in our lives of the deepest, most distant past. He explores this subject through a multitude of mediums: fragments of autobiography; curious folktales; literary snippets; historical anecdotes both classical and modern; ruminations on biology, archaeology, and linguistics. Using all of these forms, he confronts dimensions of human experience which, though customarily conveyed in legend, myth, and dreams, run somehow beneath the everyday world and yet are part of our most tangible reality.

To enter Quignard's horizonless time-space is to embrace a rich vision in which the totality of human history and culture is placed disconcertingly on a single footing. In The Fount of Time we are able to glimpse--whether through obscure cultural detail or unusual anecdote--"another world beneath the world."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Pascal Quignard is the author of over 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 for The 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, André Gorz, Yves Bonnefoy, and Pascal Quignard, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857428497
• ISBN 13: 9780857428493
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 342
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