The Tears (French List) - Hardcover

Quignard, Pascal

 
9781803090641: The Tears (French List)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1803090642 ISBN 13: 9781803090641
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pascal Quignard is one of the foremost literary French writers. Chris Turner is a translator and writer who lives in Birmingham, UK.
 

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803090642
ISBN 13 
9781803090641
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
187
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