Pascal Quignard

Towards the Vanishing Point

von Léa Vuong

128 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781909662919
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.2016
• Größe: 250 x 175 mm
• Verlag: Legenda