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"Wandering Shadows" Author: [France] Pascal Quignard Publisher: Nanjing University Press Translator: Zhang Xinmu
"Wandering Shadows" Author: [France] Pascal Quignard Publisher: Nanjing University Press Translator: Zhang Xinmu
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is the winner of the 2002 Goncourt Prize, a representative work of Pascal Quignard, and is translated by Professor Zhang Xinmu of the French Department of Nanjing University. What is a wandering shadow? Shadows are the saints of all ages, the hermits who have not separated themselves from the world, and the thinkers who are extraordinary. Wandering shadows stroll in the peaceful and tranquil nature, drift in the long river of history, and swim in the diverse cultures of various nations. In this Montaigne-style work, Pascal Quignard encounters these wandering shadows. He is obsessed with "untimely meditations" and uses dense fragments of thought to lash out at the modern civilization with many drawbacks. He criticizes the concept of progress and hopes to return to the origin of human nature and recover the original happiness.
Pascal Quignard, a famous contemporary French writer, has won the French Academy Novel Prize, the French Critics Award, the French Cultural Prize, and in 2002 he won the Goncourt Prize for his book "Wandering Shadows".
This book is a peculiar work. It is neither a philosophical speculation nor a profound essay, nor a novel narrative. It can be said that it has nothing to do with any genre. "Wandering Shadows" brings together a large number of literary fragments, interspersed with personal experiences, historical events and personal thoughts. It does not make a final judgment on time, the world and society, but is just some "small thoughts".
This difficult-to-classify work seems arbitrary and complicated, but it is in fact ingenious and profound. Pascal Quignard integrates historical imagination, literary fiction, artistic aesthetics and philosophical speculation, and lashes out at the various ills of modern civilization with the "untimely meditations" of "untimely people", trying to find the secret to eternity in art.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Pascal Quignard (1948-), a famous French novelist and essayist, winner of the Goncourt Prize, the French Academy Novel Prize, the French Critics Prize, and the French Cultural Prize, is also internationally renowned. He suffered from autism in his youth, which had a significant impact on his later creative career. His works are characterized by fragmented forms, mixed contents, and profound thoughts. His representative works include "Wandering Shadows", "Roman Balcony", "Every Morning in the World", "Salon of Württemberg", "Secret Life", etc.
About the Translator
Zhang Xinmu, from Gaochun, Jiangsu Province, is a second-level professor at Nanjing University, a doctoral supervisor, an academic member of the liberal arts department, an expert with special government allowances, and vice president of the Chinese French Literature Research Association. He was formerly the vice dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Nanjing University and the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in France. In 2006, he was awarded the French government's Palme d'Ordre de l'Education (Knight), and in 2008, he was awarded the translation award of the Third Jiangsu Zijin Literature Award. His research areas are linguistics, semiotics, and French literature. He has published monographs such as "Semiotic Analysis of French Novels" and "The Aesthetics of Proust", translated more than 50 works such as "Notre Dame de Paris", "On Seduction", "The Morality of Ambiguity", "The Politics of Literature", and "The Society of the Spectacle", and compiled more than 10 textbooks and books; published more than 60 academic papers at home and abroad; completed 10 national and provincial and ministerial projects, and presided over the national boutique course "French Reading".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Chapter 2 (The Shadow of Sexual Enjoyment) 6
Chapter 3 (Third Party) 12
Chapter 4 (Bamiyan Buddhas) 13
Chapter 5 Beitan Island 17
Chapter 6 (We) 24
Chapter 7 Newborn 25
Chapter 8 (The Last Kingdom) 29
Chapter 9 Holy Bottle 37
Chapter 10 (Absent) 41
Chapter 11 Cras42
Chapter 12 (Horse) 45
Chapter 13 Boat 46
Chapter 14 (Black Sky) 48
Chapter 15 Shadow 49
Chapter 16 List of 2001 58
Chapter 17 (Television) 61
Chapter XVIII. On the Arrest of M. de Saint-Siran on May 14, 1638
Chapter 19 (Pluto) 65
Chapter 20 (Mogador) 78
Chapter 21 Candle Clipper 80
Chapter 22 (Ubi) 87
Chapter 23 (Direction of Dawn) 88
Chapter 24 (Morning Mist) 91
Chapter 25 (The Banks of the Rongna River) 93
Chapter 26 The Immortal King of Centuries 95
Chapter 27 Saint Barthélemy 99
Chapter 28 Farewell 109
Chapter 29 Han Yu 111
Chapter 30: Virgin 118
Chapter 31 (Sludge) 121
Chapter 32: The Church in Leiden 122
Chapter 33 Post tenebras123
Chapter 34 Perditos133
Chapter 35 (Vincennes Castle) 134
Chapter 36 Barefoot Reader 135
Chapter 37 Terror136
Chapter 38 (King's Pool) 142
Chapter 39 (Saint Silang) 143
Chapter 40 (Lancelot) 155
Chapter 41 (Mr. Fantastic) 156
Chapter 42 Cart 157
Chapter 43 (The Monastery) 160
Chapter 44 (From Beckheim to Frankfurt) 168
Chapter 45 (Sleeping) 179
Chapter 46 (Hunter) 181
Chapter 47 Emily 190
Chapter 48 History 193
Chapter 49 (Right of Asylum) 195
Chapter 50 (Chaobin) 205
Chapter 51 On the River Flowing into the Flowers 206
Chapter 52 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) 214
Chapter 53 Another Kingdom 217
Chapter 54 (The Kingdom of Jerusalem) 223
Chapter 55: The Last Days of Sophius 224
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