Pascal Quignard Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. Dying of Thinking is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignard's Last Kingdom series. It explores three themes: how thought and death coincide, how thought is close to melancholy, and how thought takes shelter near traumatism. One who thinks, Quignard shows us, "compensates" for a very ancient abandonment. Even as a dream is a meaning whose disorderly, condensed, paradoxical images intuit something which has preceded sleep and which returns in them, thought is a meaning which uses words that are written, re-transcribed, dissected, etymologized and neologized. Throughout the Last Kingdom series, Quignard has sought to experience another way of thinking, one that has nothing to do with philosophy, a way of attaching himself "literally" to texts and of progressing by decomposing the imagery of dreams. Dying of Thinking is the heart of this quest.

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.

A novel of intersecting historical threads. The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagne's daughter Bertha. The studious and scholarly Nithard succeeds his father Angilbert as lay abbot of the Abbey of Saint Riquier in Normandy and accompanies his cousin the emperor Charles the Bald on his military campaigns. His twin brother Hartnid strikes out boldly for more exotic parts--including, eventually, Baghdad--in a seemingly deranged quest to track down the elusive female face that haunts his dreams. Yet this novel of intersecting historical threads and patches of poetic reimagining is crisscrossed by a host of other themes: the enigmatic joys afforded by nature, the intimate relation between living creatures which literature has since earliest times depicted, and the mysterious power of contingent events that have shaped entire cultures--including the birth of the French language itself. This heady brew of medieval chronicle, miraculous folktale, and speculative reconstruction of history further strengthens Pascal Quignard's status as one of France's most imaginative contemporary writers.

A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting. In Pascal Quignard’s writing, philology hunts for wild game in a dark forest. The Unsaddled , which features horses as its central figure, is no exception. Taking off from puns, multifarious imagery, and metaphorical meanings—“to be baffled,” “to be thrown”—that the book’s title provides, Quignard focuses on life-changing moments. We meet George Sand (whose father died after being thrown from his horse), Saint Paul, Abelard, Agrippa d’Aubigné, and countless other writers, philosophers, theologians, or kings who fell off their horses—not to forget Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who was knocked over by a dog. Being “unsaddled” can also be associated, as Quignard shows in regard to Nietzsche, with an “overturning” of values. Scenes of war, hunting, “fleeing” or sexuality—“When lovers have a horse ride, they gallop in another world”—come before our eyes, each time from those unsettling vantage points that Quignard knows how to find. As ever, he ranges far and wide in his intense quest, taking examples from across human history, from the neolithic age to his own childhood memories of postwar Le Havre in northern France. 

“ 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 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.” 

When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Brittany. She becomes increasingly obsessed by her childhood sweetheart, Simon Quelen, who, now married and a father, still lives in a village further down the coast where he is the local pharmacist and mayor. Having moved into a farmhouse, she soon spends her days walking the heathland above the cliffs and spying on him as he sails in the bay. As she walks, she is at one with the land of her childhood and youth, "her skull emptying into the landscape." And when her younger brother Paul comes to join her there, the web of solidarities is further enriched. This is a tale of dramatic episodes, told through intermingling voices and the atmospherics of the austere Breton landscape. Ultimately, it is a story of obsessional love and of a parallel sibling bond that is equally strong.

Prolific 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. In Abysses, 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.

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Loin devant les villas sur la digue, elle se tenait accroupie, les genoux au menton, en plein vent, sur le sable humide de la marée. Elle pouvait passer des heures devant les vagues, dans le vacarme, engloutie dans leur rythme comme dans l'étendue grise, de plus en plus bruyante et immense, de la mer.

Frankreich Ende der fünfziger Jahre. Überall im Land sind amerikanische Truppen. Marie-José und Patrick sind ein Liebespaar seit ihrer Kindheit. Auch in dem Dorf, in dem die beiden aufwachsen, ist eine Base der "Amerikanischen Besatzung". Faszination für die Amerikaner und Abscheu für die Besatzer teilen nicht nur das Dorf, der Gegensatz greift auch in die Pubertät von Marie-José und Patrick ein und beginnt, eine Jugendliebe zu zerstören.§

Ein mutiges und abenteuerliches literarisches Werk, das die Beziehung zwischen Lesen, Schreiben, Sex und Tod erkundet. Das erste Buch in Pascal Quignards Last Kingdom-Serie kann als lange Meditation über Lesen und Schreiben gelesen werden, die bestrebt ist, diese ansonsten harmlosen Aktivitäten in eine tiefgreifende Beziehung zu Sex und Tod zu stellen. Schreiben und Lesen können tatsächlich mit unserer tierischen Natur und künstlerischen Bestrebungen, mit urtümlichen Kräften und kulturell persistierenden Faszinationen verbunden werden. Mit Geschicklichkeit und Einfallsreichtum verwebt Quignard historische Anekdoten, Märchen aus Ost und West, Fragmente von Mythen und spekulative historische Rekonstruktionen. Das Ganze, in einem musikalischen Stil verfasst, der nicht weit von dem Couperins entfernt ist, dessen Klavierkomposition Les Ombres errantes dem Buch seinen Titel verleiht, fügt sich zu einem literarischen Werk, das lange nach dem Lesen im Geist nachhallt. Die wandernden Schatten ist ein seltenes und wunderbares Meisterwerk, das Quignards Ruf in der zeitgenössischen Weltliteratur festigt.

In the 17th century, an etcher finds his face destroyed by acid. This "leathery face" forever marks him with the love he bore for Nanni of Bruges and the vengeful act of her jealous fiancé. Deprived of image and expression, the engraver Meaume delves into his inner self. Through a series of disjointed scenes, akin to cries and gasps accompanying a journey through hell towards the light, Meaume expresses his ecstasies, his art, his desires, as well as themes of creativity, love, appearance, and truth. As a man "attacked by images," he articulates his visions and his fascination with the interplay of light and shadow. The realm of creativity has always captivated Pascal Quignard, as seen in his previous novels. He is a writer of silence, of "stammering," of "secrets," propelled by a language with deeply rooted origins.

"La vie secrète est la vie qui se sépare du monde. Je renonçai peu à peu à toutes les activités sociales que je menais. Je cherchais autre chose. La vie qui ne se montre pas, cachée, amoureuse, profonde, non sociale."

Novela současného francouzského spisovatele se odehrává ve Francii 17. století a jejím leitmotivem je pochopení hudby a vztah k ní. Ve zfilmované podobě vytvořil hlavní roli Gérard Depardieu.

Einen unbegreiflichen Umschwung gilt es zu verstehen: von der fröhlichen Erotik des helllichten Tages, die im alten Griechenland gefeiert wurde, zur Verbannung des sexuellen Akts ins Dunkle, Angsterfüllte, Verborgene bei den Römern. Wo ließe sich dem besser nachspüren als in Pompeji – dort, wo der Schrecken von Erdstößen und glühender Lava uns im Augenblick des Todes das faszinierende Bild des Zusammenstoßes dieser beiden Zivilisationen erhalten hat? Ausgehend von den verstörenden Fresken in Pompeji erzählt Pascal Quignard eine Geschichte über den Tod, die antike Malerei und den abendländischen Sex, die zu einer ganz neuen Sichtweise auf die römische Welt gelangt: als Ursprung des Ekels, des Grauens, der Melancholie und des Puritanismus.

InterZona presenta un libro central en la obra de Pascal Quignard en el que indaga sobre lo indecible, a través de la verborragia de un cuento escrito para ser representado y del silencio revelador de un ensayo autobiográfico. Con la ilustre introducción y la clara traducción del poeta y especialista Silvio Mattoni.El nombre en la punta de la lengua transcurre en la Normandía del siglo IX. Quignard sitúa este cuento en un momento preciso de la historia para poder volver al relato sin tiempo, a una forma mágica y circular de la narración: a una chica le gusta un chico, hace un trato para casarse pero no puede cumplir su promesa. La bordadora y el sastre se enfrentan a la noche del mundo con una simple vela y con palabras, necesitan recobrar un nombre, gozar de la felicidad reencontrada en la coincidencia.Pequeño tratado sobre Medusa, interpreta ese volver a la plenitud de la alegría, se adentra tanto en su vida como en la cultura para cristalizar esos momentos de asombro en los que el misterio del lenguaje se muestra como una forma de adentrarse aún más en su perdición.

"Le roi dit : "Il est possible que les oeuvres d'art soient le fruit des vengeances. Un de mes compagnons s'est peut-être vengé malgré l'interdiction que je lui avais faite [...]. Le désir nous affole tous les jours et sa carence nous abandonne aux ombres. Et il est vrai que les ombres sont bleues. C'est pourquoi je suis venu avec vous jusqu'ici.""Pascal Quignard.

Après la libération, les GIs s'installent à Meung, un petit village du Loiret. Patrick et Marie-Josée se passionnent alors pour le jazz et le cinéma. Leurs parents y déplorent une nouvelle armée d'occupation, les adolescents sont fascinés. Aux côtés de Wilbur, un sergent séducteur et bagarreur, leur désir de traverser l'Atlantique se fait de plus en plus fort.Né en 1948 à Verneuil-sur-Avre, Pascal Quignard a notamment écrit Petits Traités, Tous les matins du monde, Le Sexe et l'Effroi. L'Occupation américaine a été adapté à l'écran en 1997 par Alain Corneau." Un roman âpre, douloureux, fulgurant. "Le Matricule des Anges

Le violiste Marin Marais, au crépuscule de sa vie, se souvient de son maître, Sainte Colombe. Janséniste austère et intransigeant, Monsieur de Sainte Colombe cherche la perfection en tout. A ses côtés, le jeune Marin Marais apprend la viole de gambe bien sûr, mais aussi l'amour avec Madeleine. Alain Corneau a réalisé Tous les matins du monde comme s'il peignait une toile tout en clair-obscur. Au son lancinant de la viole de gambe répondent la voix de Gérard Depardieu et la langue épurée de Pascal Quignard.

Un homme a froid parce qu'il a oublié un ancien prénom. Il collectionne sur la terre entière tout ce qu'une main d'enfant peut étreindre. A Rome, à Tokyo, à Paris, à Londres, Edouard Furfooz vend des vieux jouets, des poupées, des miniatures, des dessus de tabatière : il vend les dons des Saturnales. Arrive le solstice d'hiver, où tout ce qui est petit est aimé, où les jours sont les plus courts. Alors que l'année, le feu, le soleil se préparent à revenir, c'est un intense amour qui revient.

Enfants tristes et mères lointaines. Souvenirs menteurs et apparences trompeuses. Un roman de dérive, d'une parfaite musicalité. L'argument est simple: l'amitié entre deux hommes, qui se défait avec le temps pour diverses raisons (inconsistance, jalousie, etc).