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Dying of Thinking – The Last Kingdom IX, Hardback Book

Dying of Thinking – The Last Kingdom IX Hardback

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A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France.

Dying of Thinking is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignard’s Last Kingdom series.

It explores three themes: how thought and death coincide, how thought is close to melancholy, and how thought takes shelter near traumatism.

One who thinks, Quignard shows us, “compensates” for a very ancient abandonment.

Even as a dream is a meaning whose disorderly, condensed, paradoxical images intuit something which has preceded sleep and which returns in them, thought is a meaning which uses words that are written, re-transcribed, dissected, etymologized and neologized.

Throughout the Last Kingdom series, Quignard has sought to experience another way of thinking, one that has nothing to do with philosophy, a way of attaching himself “literally” to texts and of progressing by decomposing the imagery of dreams.

Dying of Thinking is the heart of this quest.  

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