Pascal Quignard: Towards the Vanishing Point (Research Monographs in French Studies) - Softcover

Vuong, Lea

 
9781781883334: Pascal Quignard: Towards the Vanishing Point (Research Monographs in French Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781883335 ISBN 13: 9781781883334
Publisher: Legenda, 2018

Synopsis

The award-winning writer Pascal Quignard (1948-) has published many texts and has collaborated with painters, musicians and filmmakers. Yet despite the popularity and critical recognition of his work, Quignard remains a discreet and fleeting presence in the current cultural landscape, sharing with other contemporary French writers the belief that literature is a form of self-effacement.

In this first critical study in English, Léa Vuong offers a comprehensive survey of Quignard's still growing oeuvre by examining his specific attempts to produce disappearance through -- and for -- writing. His texts and collaborations appear as vanishing acts where the writer, like the figure on the Tomb of the Diver found in Paestum, remains suspended between presence and absence.

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Publisher
Legenda
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1781883335
ISBN 13 
9781781883334
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128

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