Pascal Quignard News Today

Pascal Quignard is the French author of over sixty books of fiction, essays, and his own genre of fragmented philosophical reflection.

Music isn’t completely human. - Sainte-Colombe The fifteenth-century viola da gamba (Italian, “viol for the leg”) or gamba, is played straddled like a cello. But the resemblance ends there. It is smaller and more delicate. It has five to seven strings, rather than the four of a cello, is tuned in fourths, rather than perfect

“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.”

An advance Frankfurt Book Fair Magazine interview: Éditions Albin Michel's Wendolyn Trogneax  on selling 'bestsellers overseas.'

Inspired by the big screen release of Chevalier, Limelight trawls the streamers and DVD shelves for the best cinematic explorations of the lives of classical music greats.

Does music weaken us? Does it enslave us? Were music and death companions from the very beginning?

From the blog of Alexandre Gilbert at The Times of Israel

French filmmaker Léa Mysius follows her nose in “The Five Devils,” focusing on the...

A monumental project to expand the flute repertory will continue until 2036.

A close escape from the jaws of a bear leads to an exploration of trauma and survival in the French anthropologist’s funny and horrifying memoir