The Roving Shadows (The French List)

The Roving Shadows (The French List)

There are few if any voices more distinct in contemporary French literature than that of Pascal Quignard, a prolific writer of rare erudition and elegance. Essayist, critic, translator, novelist and musician, Quignard attempts here an ambitious amalgam of his many artistic styles in a fragmentary work that defies the idea of genre. And his daring was rewarded in 2002 when The Roving Shadows became the first non-novel in more than sixty years to win the Goncourt Prize, Franceâ€™s most prestigious literary award.
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The first book in Quignardâ€™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.
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The Roving Shadows is a rare and wondrous tour de force that cements Quignardâ€™s reputation in contemporary world literature. Available now for the first time in English, this boldly adventurous work will find a new and welcoming audience.
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Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer Seagull Books
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780857420091
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer	Seagull Books
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780857420091
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Roving Shadows (The French List)

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