{"product_id":"abysses-paperback","title":"Abysses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePascal Quignard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Turner\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProlific 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, from a phase of his work in which the very concept of genre has been allowed to fall away, leaving an entirely modern, secular, and abnormal vision of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAbysses\u003c\/i\u003e, the newest addition to the series, Quignard brings us yet more of his troubling, questing characters--souls who are fascinated by what preceded and conceived them. He writes with a rich mix of anecdote and reflection, aphorism and quotation, offering enigmatic glimpses of the present, and confident, pointed borrowings from the past. But when he raids the murkier corners of the human record, he does so not as a historian but as an antiquarian. Quignard is most interested in the pursuit of those stories that repeat and echo across the seasons in their timelessness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePascal Quignard\u003c\/b\u003e is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. His other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Roving Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Sex and Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Sexual Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Silent Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Seagull Books. \u003cb\u003eChris Turner\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003ci\u003eThe Aftermath of War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortraits, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and André Gorz's \u003ci\u003eEcologica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Immaterial, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by Seagull Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160678895751,"sku":"9780857428707","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/06f008311e673e774e943b896a753bf0.webp?v=1733275642","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/abysses-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}