2023-09-07 23:00:30
Published on September 08, 2023 at 01:00.
A storm warning threatens Paris at the beginning of August, but the small apartment seems sheltered from the world. The grove on which the windows look is frozen in time. There are books, papers – we are at a writer’s house – and a piano, a cello case – he is also a musician. It is a rejuvenated, relaxed Pascal Quignard who opens the door. To accompany happy hours, he left the banks of the Oise, the mists and the silence. This volume is the twelfth of the Last Kingdom, an adventure long hosted by Grasset, hosted today by Albin Michel where Martine Saada continues to edit it. “Readers don’t realize how difficult it is to publish a book,” says the author. Difficult? For a work so commented on, studied, translated? “There are no longer any major publishers ready to commit to a long-term project.”
If the novels, since All the mornings of the world (Gallimard, 1991) and its adaptation to the cinema, have found their audience, if the splendid illustrated works – Sex and Effroi (Gallimard, 1994) and The Sexual Night (Flammarion, 2007) – left their mark, Last Kingdom, this exploration, all in fragments – little stories, bursts of scholarship, snippets of mythologies, resurrection of forgotten authors, deployment of etymologies – can be intimidating. Yet she is more and more clear and happy.
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