"Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical
argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor
novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen
away." So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book series,
Last Kingdom. In the latest volume, The Fount of Time, he focuses
on the paradoxically immediate presence in our lives of the
deepest, most distant past. He explores this subject through a
multitude of mediums: fragments of autobiography; curious
folktales; literary snippets; historical anecdotes both classical
and modern; ruminations on biology, archaeology, and linguistics.
Using all of these forms, he confronts dimensions of human
experience which, though customarily conveyed in legend, myth, and
dreams, run somehow beneath the everyday world and yet are part of
our most tangible reality. To enter Quignard's horizonless
time-space is to embrace a rich vision in which the totality of
human history and culture is placed disconcertingly on a single
footing. In The Fount of Time we are able to glimpse-whether
through obscure cultural detail or unusual anecdote-"another world
beneath the world."
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