Pascal Quignard

de Agnès Cousin de Ravel

Pascal Quignard, one of the major writers of modernity, has published to date more than eighty books: treatises, tales, novels and the nine volumes of his Last Kingdom, woven from his readings and many autobiographical mentions. From meetings, interviews, archive documents and the collection of many facts, Agnès Cousin de Ravel highlights the links that unite the lives of Pascal Quignard and his creations and the distance that sometimes separates them. This book traces the origins of the writer's father and mother's family and three periods of his life: 1948-1969, his childhood and adolescence, 1969-1994, his career as a reader, publisher, general secretary at Gallimard and writer more and more recognized and since 1994, his life devoted to his literary creations, musical and his performances. From the Alsace des Quignard organists to Sens and Paris, passing through many places (Ancenis, Verneuil, the "Bergheim" of the young German Cäzilia Müller, Le Havre, Sèvres and many others) that closely or far have played a role in the life of creator Pascal Quignard, this book is also, for who would like to study the lives of Pascal Quignard, a mine of bio-bibliographic resources: a complete bibliography of his books and their translations, the list his collaborations with painters and musicians, his creations for the performing arts (co-creations and performances) and most of the critical bibliography.