Full Description
Hours. Landscapes. Seasons. Life. A musical meditation in poetic prose.
'At any given moment in time', writes Quignard, 'a work receives its sudden audition. Bach and Mendelssohn. Froberger in Bach. A bird in Messiaen.'
Like Bach, Quignard is anachronistic. In his remarkable body of work, the accomplished musician and writer, who once began writing a thesis on the language of Bergson, probes incessantly the mystery of time. Happy the Hours is the epitome of this probing, a perpetual beginning.
Pascal Quignard is laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Academie francaise (2000), the Prix Goncourt (2002) and the Prix Formentor (2023), amongst many other prestigious awards.
Happy the Hours (Les Heures Heureuses, Albin Michel, 2023) is the twelfth in his Last Kingdom series.
Contents
I Evenings at Compiegne
II Dying on the Hour
III Dates and Hours
IV The Livres d'Heures
V The Beach at Ischia
VI There are Three Suns in the Sun
VII Speculum historiale
VIII Removal
IX Horai
X The Yonne
XI Mogador
XII The Belem Tower
XIII Water
XIV Pavia
XV The Anarythmetic
XVI Saint Teresa
XVII The Master of the Return to Origins
XVIII The Ruins of Jumieges
XIX The Lost House
XX La rue du presbytere
XXI The Hunt
XXII The Temple (Tempula) of Time
XXIII The Cosy Nook for Memories of the World
XXIV General History
XXV Skates and Rays
XXVI Elvers
XXVII 1955-2017
XXVIII Anger
XXIX Hero's Tower
XXX Bern
XXXI November
XXXII Dates of Thalassa
XXXIII Resurgences
XXXIV Renaissances
XXXV The Livres d'Heures of Love
XXXVI The Girl in the Ashes
XXXVII Poems
XXXVIII The Palace of Versailles in the Snow in 1991
XXXIX The 1640s
XL The Hours Torn from the Book
XLI Jean Bruneau
XLII Lucretius
XLIII Literature as Cryptography
XLIV Charles de Saint-Evremond
XLV Giordano Bruno
XLVI Madeleine de Sable
XLVII A Carrot Soup
XLVIII La Galigai
XLIX Spinoza
L Plutarch
