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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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Complete Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784105266, Carcanet, July 2017
248 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for "his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time". Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire poetic oeuvre fills...
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Terrace in Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781939663160, DAP, Wakefield Press, May 2016
128 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "A Terrace in Rome" describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of encrypted shadows and erotic prints. After a passionate affair in his youth concludes with his face being burned by acid thrown...
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£12,50
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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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Hitting the Streets
ISBN: PB: 9781847771575, Carcanet, July 2013
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's "Hitting the Streets" is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. "Hitting the Streets" is Queneau's love le...
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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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Unlikely Progeny
ISBN: HB: 9781906497668, Seagull Books, December 2010
132 pp., 25x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger has mastered poetry, novels, and the intricate balance between history and fiction, but he's never done anything quite like this before. For the writing of "Unlikely Progeny", Enzensberger developed a persona – Linda Quilt -c...
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Elementary Morality
ISBN: PB: 9781857549485, Carcanet, January 2008
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Elementary Morality", Raymond Queneau's last book, is in many ways his most momentous. Here he distils the work of a lifetime: as Surrealist, flaneur, mathematician, poet, student of Eastern philosophy, experimental novelist and co-founder of OuLiPo...
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