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Dying of Thinking – The Last Kingdom IX

By Pascal Quignard and John Taylor
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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... Read More
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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803092423

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 5.0mm

Height: 8.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 284

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About the Author

Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty books and is widely regarded as one of the foremost literary French writers today. In 2002, he won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with The Roving Shadows, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize.

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