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

Vuong, Lea

ISBN 10: 1909662917 / ISBN 13: 9781909662919

Published by Legenda, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pascal Quignard: Towards the Vanishing Point (Research Monographs in French Studies)
• Publisher: Legenda
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909662917
• ISBN 13: 9781909662919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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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 œuvre 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.