Description
"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."
About the Author
Pascal Quignard is one of France's most eminent living writers. He is the author of several books, including All the World's Mornings and Roving Shadows. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German.
Reviews
"The Fount of Time is a gift-not only because is full of wisdoms, eccentricities, and curiosities, and not only because it does the magic work of evoking timelessness, but because it manifests dozens of interventions and entrances into the terrain of human experience. Because at any time, you can encounter a sentence that incites you to close the book, sit back, and-in Quignard's brilliant company-think." * Asymptote *
Book Information
ISBN 9780857428493
Author Pascal Quignard
Format Hardback
Page Count 342
Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 36mm
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."
About the Author
Pascal Quignard is one of France's most eminent living writers. He is the author of several books, including All the World's Mornings and Roving Shadows. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German.
Reviews
"The Fount of Time is a gift-not only because is full of wisdoms, eccentricities, and curiosities, and not only because it does the magic work of evoking timelessness, but because it manifests dozens of interventions and entrances into the terrain of human experience. Because at any time, you can encounter a sentence that incites you to close the book, sit back, and-in Quignard's brilliant company-think." * Asymptote *
Book Information
ISBN 9780857428493
Author Pascal Quignard
Format Hardback
Page Count 342
Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 36mm
