{"product_id":"dying-of-thinking-pascal-quignard-9781803092423","title":"Dying of Thinking: The Last Kingdom IX","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDying of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDying of Thinking \u003c\/i\u003eis the heart of this quest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pascal Quignard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803092424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803092423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Pascal Quignard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44890982187263,"sku":"9781803092423","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54c56bd2-775a-4b59-8434-88586c963598.jpg?v=1709740587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dying-of-thinking-pascal-quignard-9781803092423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}