PASCAL QUIGNARD OU LES LECONS DE TENEBRES DE LA LITTERATURE

"The high purity and transparency of the air, which is one of the causes of the intensity of the blue color of the sky, produce a singular phenomenon at the top of Mont Blanc: it is possible to see the stars in daylight; but for this you must be entirely in the shade and see even, above his head, a considerable thickness of shadow. The proper place to make this observation in the morning was the ascent to the shoulder of Mont Blanc "(Horace-Bénédict de Saussure). What, for each literary work, is a shoulder to the considerable darkness that will bear dazzling stars? Unmatched emotions? For Pascal Quignard, a nyctalope writer who seeks the secrets of the dark, literature is this dark technique that brings the dream and light the world of the beauty of his images against the light against the night. This book, which is a writing addressed to a writing, strives to make and transmit the intimate experience of the text. To echo this place where to welcome the features of what seeks obscurely to give birth to the mysteries of origins and ends. To what is calling. Which, decidedly, is called: literature.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Éditions Galilée.