Pascal Quignard: Towards the Vanishing Point

By Lea Vuong

Book Overview

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, L a 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781883335
• ISBN13: 9781781883334
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"