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Mysterious Solidarities
ISBN: HB: 9780857427397, Seagull Books, July 2021
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Bri...
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Fount of Time The Last Kindom II
ISBN: HB: 9780857428493, Seagull Books, June 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"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 serie...
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Villa Amalia
ISBN: HB: 9780857424785, Seagull Books, February 2018
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn't telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house in the Paris suburbs, where he disappears inside with an unknown woman. But before she can even begin t...
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Hatred of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...
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£20,00
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Abysses
ISBN: HB: 9780857422446, Seagull Books, May 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
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...
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£19,00
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Sexual Night
ISBN: HB: 9780857422064, Seagull Books, December 2014
124 pp., 25x15 cm, 48 colour plates
In "The Sexual Night", renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Durer to Rembrandt and Tint...
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£30,00
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Silent Crossing
ISBN: HB: 9780857420770, Seagull Books, June 2013
264 pp., 25x15 cm
A prolific essayist, novelist, translator, philosopher, and a critic of rare elegance, Pascal Quignard returns anew to the major questions of existence in "The Silent Crossing", a haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to t...
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Roving Shadows
ISBN: HB: 9780857420091, Seagull Books, May 2012
224 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
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 amalg...
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Sex and Terror
ISBN: HB: 9781906497866, Seagull Books, February 2012
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.
The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Priapus, and the fescennine verses, one of the earliest forms of Roman poetry, accompanied the celebrations...
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