The Roving Shadows Paperback / softback
by Pascal Quignard
Part of the The Seagull Library of French Literature series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:23/04/2024
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- ISBN:9781803093659
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:23/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781803093659