Paradisiacs

Pascal Quignard is the author of over sixty titles and is widely regarded as one of the foremost literary French writers today. In 2002, he won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt for The Roving Shadows. John Taylor has translated many key French, Swiss, Italian, and modern Greek writers. His translations include books by Philippe Jaccottet, Georges Perros, Catherine Colomb, and Pierre Chappuis, as well as Pascal Quignard’s The Unsaddled and Dying of Thinking. Taylor is also the author of several books of poetry and poetic prose, including, most recently, What Comes from the Night.

• CHAPTER 1 (Isola d’Ischia)CHAPTER 2 A scene deleted from the beginning of the novel All the World’s Mornings CHAPTER 3 De vita beata CHAPTER 4 De situ terrae sanctaeCHAPTER 5 The Woman of BoègesCHAPTER 6 ZeitloseCHAPTER 7 Earthly odourCHAPTER 8 The fabulous embrace CHAPTER 9 The Story of the Governor of the Omi ProvinceCHAPTER 10 The tough differenceCHAPTER 11 The yellow woman readingCHAPTER 12 ImmeditatusCHAPTER 13 Impossible ResemblanceCHAPTER 14 Spitting imagesCHAPTER 15 Julia the ElderCHAPTER 16 (The Lost)CHAPTER 17 Sand and SandeauCHAPTER 18 The cypress abodeCHAPTER 19 Miso soupCHAPTER 20 (Natasha Rostova recognizing herself in the shadow)CHAPTER 21 The TiberCHAPTER 22 The unrecognizable gardenerCHAPTER 23 On the nudity of Marie d’EngheinCHAPTER 24 Le Beau DunoisCHAPTER 25 De similitudine carnisCHAPTER 26 Rue LénineCHAPTER 27 The inner worldCHAPTER 28 Gutter meumCHAPTER 29 Out of the Body ExperienceCHAPTER 30 The GuerresCHAPTER 31 MedusaCHAPTER 32 Time and The NovelCHAPTER 33 Disturbing resemblances eliciting anxious conversationsCHAPTER 34 Narcissus the HunterCHAPTER 35 The Athens PigCHAPTER 36 Ulysses the NostalgicCHAPTER 37 Alexius, son of EuphemianusCHAPTER 38 (The Sioux Indians)CHAPTER 39 (The violent garden)CHAPTER 40 The stonesCHAPTER 41 BernardCHAPTER 42 Paradise regainedCHAPTER 43 No one’s placeCHAPTER 44 Hu TziCHAPTER 45 Io IslandCHAPTER 46 Lost IslandCHAPTER 47 Pier Paolo PasoliniCHAPTER 48 The State of AcreCHAPTER 49 ApiridaezaCHAPTER 50 List of ParadisesCHAPTER 51 Elisha’s ShadowCHAPTER 52 In overscheytCHAPTER 53 The Sacred WoodCHAPTER 54 DanceCHAPTER 55 Moments of ParadiseCHAPTER 56 The NoseCHAPTER 57 The Fountain of YouthCHAPTER 58 De Paradiso voluptatisCHAPTER 59 EanusCHAPTER 60 Eustachius ante Placidus vocabatur. . .CHAPTER 61 De AntiquissimaCHAPTER 62 The Rocks of Liu LiangCHAPTER 63 ApocatastasisCHAPTER 64 Ich horte ein wazzer diezenCHAPTER 65 The Good LabourerCHAPTER 66 On CastrationCHAPTER 67 Hortus conclususCHAPTER 68 On the Sonder WaerommeCHAPTER 69 On AdventCHAPTER 70 Guérin’s WifeCHAPTER 71 Very Short ChapterCHAPTER 72 TiphysCHAPTER 73 AsgardCHAPTER 74 JoppaCHAPTER 75 The Paradisical VoiceCHAPTER 76 ChristmasCHAPTER 77 The red milkCHAPTER 78 DishevelledCHAPTER 79 (Pont Royal)CHAPTER 80 Exules fili EvaeCHAPTER 81 Saturn’s LadderCHAPTER 82 Frater Lucius