Mysterious Solidarities by Pascal Quignard
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.
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A Season in the Congo
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Letters around a Garden
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Farewell Tangier
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
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On Modern Art
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Doing
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Correspondence
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Incidents
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Poetry and Photography
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Signs and Images. Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
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"A Very Fine Gift" and Other Writings on Theory
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Critical Essays
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Nevermore
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Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism
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"Simply a Particular Contemporary": Interviews, 1970–79
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On Merleau-Ponty
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Paper Collage
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On Revolution
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The Real and its Double
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Incinarration
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The Paradisiacs
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Anthropology of the Name
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Tomb(e)
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The Sexual Night
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Eunice
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Stardust
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The 'Scandal' of Marxism and Other Writings on Politics
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To Sit on the Earth
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Old World
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On the Wrong Side
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And the War Is Over . . .
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Duels
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Mdeilmm
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The First Line
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Ecologica
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The Emperor
Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty books and is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. He has recently published the tenth volume of his celebrated Last Kingdom series. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated more than eighty books from French and German.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857427397 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857427393 |
| Title | Mysterious Solidarities |
| Author | Pascal Quignard |
| Series | The French List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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