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Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration,” but comes, rather, from a phase of his work in which the very concept of genre has been allowed to fall away, leaving an entirely modern, secular, and abnormal vision of the world.
In Abysses, the newest addition to the series, Quignard brings us yet more of his troubling, questing characterssouls who are fascinated by what preceded and conceived them. He writes with a rich mix of anecdote and reflection, aphorism and quotation, offering enigmatic glimpses of the present, and confident, pointed borrowings from the past. But when he raids the murkier corners of the human record, he does so not as a historian but as an antiquarian. Quignard is most interested in pursuit of those stories that repeat and echo across the seasons in their timelessness.

Praise for Quignard
Quignard is undoubtedly the most iconoclastic of contemporary French authors.”Catherine Argand,Lire

Pascal Quignard is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. His other books includeThe Roving Shadows, Sex and Terror, The Sexual Night, and The Silent Crossing, all published by Seagull Books.Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’sThe Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays and André Gorz’sEcologica and The Immaterial, all published by Seagull Books.