The Roving Shadows by Pascal Quignard
A lyrical, fragmentary meditation that weaves short essays, aphorisms and mythic reminiscences into an elegy on music, voice, silence and mortality; the narrator moves between antiquity and intimate memory—invoking ancient song, lost performers and vanished languages—to explore how sound, desire and mourning shape identity, time and the limits of speech, producing a spare, haunting prose that reads like a series of philosophical and poetic reflections on loss and the persistence of music in the face of death.
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- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 240
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - Les Ombres errantes
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