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Silent Crossing

Quignard Pascal
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781803093611
Publisert
2024-04-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Seagull Books London Ltd
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
306

Forfatter
Quignard Pascal
Oversetter
Turner, Chris

Om bidragsyterne

Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty titles and is widely regarded as one of the foremost literary French writers today. In 2002, he won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with The Roving Shadows, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. For Seagull Books, he has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays; and André Gorz’s Ecologica and The Immaterial.

Silent Crossing

Quignard Pascal
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Quignard Pascal
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding ground for a modern Enlightenment. Considering atheism as a spiritual liberation, suicide as a free act, and the rejection of society as a free choice, the author explores philosophical themes that have run through human civilizations—most often as heresies—from our earliest days. In his search for freedom, Quignard questions the binding dependency of religion, querying how, in a world where all forms of society presuppose that someone (or some collective) is looking over our shoulders, we can be free. These reflections, he implies, are the essential spiritual exercise for our times.   Few voices in contemporary French literature are more distinct than that of Quignard. By reading this fragmentary, episodic assemblage of intimate experiences and borrowed tales, we open up a space of liberty, creating for the reader space for meditation and, perhaps, liberation.  
Les mer
Translator’s Acknowledgement1. (The Infant’s Boat)2. Louise Brulé3. Quai de la fausse rivière4. (Étienne Mallarmé)5. Laodamia6. Salomon of London7. The City from the Other World8. The Dust Devil9. (Exile)10. (Hell)11. (Cardinal Mazarin)12. (Nekyia)13. (Madame de La Fayette)14. The Last Tourney15. (La Valliote)16. (Anne’s Skull)17. Eternal Damnation18. (Bellerophon)19. The Last Abbot20. (Do not become Yourself)21. Ipsimus22. Separate, Sacred Communication23. (Countess of Hornoc)24. Whitcomb Judson25. Ecstasy and Enstasy26. Impetuous Death27. De Suicidio28. (Arria)29. (Origo atheismi)30.  Jesus the Suicide31. Liberty32. The Definition of ‘The Open’33. Autarkès34. Menephron35. (Dogs and Cats)36. (The Sadness of Liberty)37. (Insulae)38. Marvellous Hatred39. (Jaw)40. (The Prague City Clock)41. Bossuet’s Mouth42. (January)43. (Candelmas)44.(Caesar’s Penultimate Words)45. (On the Supposed Functions of Death)46. (The Caterpillar Knows Nothing . . .)47. The Singing Festivals of the Marais48. Kingdom of the Shadows49. (Il Morto)50. (Vis)51. The Boat with the Black Flames52. On the Power Inherent in the Colour Black53. Pompey54. (On those Banned from Hell)55. (Franz Süssmayr)56. (Philodemus of Herculaneum)57. Experiri58. (De reliquo)59. (On the Chrysanthemum’s Entry into the History of France)60. (The Umbilical)61. (The Emperor Alexander)62. (Rites of the Dead)63. (Thamus)64. (The 1878 Epigraph)65. De atheismo66. (Atheists and Men of Letters)67. (Gott ist tot)68. The Four Theses69. Superstitiosi, Religiosi, People in Mourning70. Immortalia ne speres71. (Death of Henrietta Anne of England)72. (De natura decorum)73. The Castle of Grief74. Post-mortem Assaults on Reputation75. The Cat76. (Armida)77. Porte Saint-Ouen78. Old Thunderstorm79. Quomodo dicis quod amas me80. (Oxford)81. (Cäcilia Mūller)82. (François Pontrain)83. Lille84. The Bay of Naples in 155285. (The Seven Fishermen)86. Charon’s BarkTranslator’s Notes
Les mer

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A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding ground for a modern Enlightenment. Considering atheism as a spiritual liberation, suicide as a free act, and the rejection of society as a free choice, the author explores philosophical themes that have run through human civilizations—most often as heresies—from our earliest days. In his search for freedom, Quignard questions the binding dependency of religion, querying how, in a world where all forms of society presuppose that someone (or some collective) is looking over our shoulders, we can be free. These reflections, he implies, are the essential spiritual exercise for our times.   Few voices in contemporary French literature are more distinct than that of Quignard. By reading this fragmentary, episodic assemblage of intimate experiences and borrowed tales, we open up a space of liberty, creating for the reader space for meditation and, perhaps, liberation.  
Les mer
Translator’s Acknowledgement1. (The Infant’s Boat)2. Louise Brulé3. Quai de la fausse rivière4. (Étienne Mallarmé)5. Laodamia6. Salomon of London7. The City from the Other World8. The Dust Devil9. (Exile)10. (Hell)11. (Cardinal Mazarin)12. (Nekyia)13. (Madame de La Fayette)14. The Last Tourney15. (La Valliote)16. (Anne’s Skull)17. Eternal Damnation18. (Bellerophon)19. The Last Abbot20. (Do not become Yourself)21. Ipsimus22. Separate, Sacred Communication23. (Countess of Hornoc)24. Whitcomb Judson25. Ecstasy and Enstasy26. Impetuous Death27. De Suicidio28. (Arria)29. (Origo atheismi)30.  Jesus the Suicide31. Liberty32. The Definition of ‘The Open’33. Autarkès34. Menephron35. (Dogs and Cats)36. (The Sadness of Liberty)37. (Insulae)38. Marvellous Hatred39. (Jaw)40. (The Prague City Clock)41. Bossuet’s Mouth42. (January)43. (Candelmas)44.(Caesar’s Penultimate Words)45. (On the Supposed Functions of Death)46. (The Caterpillar Knows Nothing . . .)47. The Singing Festivals of the Marais48. Kingdom of the Shadows49. (Il Morto)50. (Vis)51. The Boat with the Black Flames52. On the Power Inherent in the Colour Black53. Pompey54. (On those Banned from Hell)55. (Franz Süssmayr)56. (Philodemus of Herculaneum)57. Experiri58. (De reliquo)59. (On the Chrysanthemum’s Entry into the History of France)60. (The Umbilical)61. (The Emperor Alexander)62. (Rites of the Dead)63. (Thamus)64. (The 1878 Epigraph)65. De atheismo66. (Atheists and Men of Letters)67. (Gott ist tot)68. The Four Theses69. Superstitiosi, Religiosi, People in Mourning70. Immortalia ne speres71. (Death of Henrietta Anne of England)72. (De natura decorum)73. The Castle of Grief74. Post-mortem Assaults on Reputation75. The Cat76. (Armida)77. Porte Saint-Ouen78. Old Thunderstorm79. Quomodo dicis quod amas me80. (Oxford)81. (Cäcilia Mūller)82. (François Pontrain)83. Lille84. The Bay of Naples in 155285. (The Seven Fishermen)86. Charon’s BarkTranslator’s Notes
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781803093611
Publisert
2024-04-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Seagull Books London Ltd
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
306

Forfatter
Quignard Pascal
Oversetter
Turner, Chris

Om bidragsyterne

Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty titles and is widely regarded as one of the foremost literary French writers today. In 2002, he won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with The Roving Shadows, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. For Seagull Books, he has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays; and André Gorz’s Ecologica and The Immaterial.

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