Pascal Quignard's La Nuit Sexuelle Explores the Unrepresentable Through Art
Pascal Quignard's book "La Nuit sexuelle" (Flammarion, 300 pages) pursues the theme of the missing image of origin, continuing his earlier work "Le Sexe et l'effroi." The volume reproduces 200 paintings and drawings that illustrate the unrepresentable. Quignard attempts to articulate the ineffable through visual imagery, a paradox central to literature at its most ambitious.
Key facts
- Pascal Quignard is the author of La Nuit sexuelle
- The book is published by Flammarion
- It contains 200 reproductions of paintings and drawings
- The volume is 300 pages
- It continues themes from Quignard's earlier work Le Sexe et l'effroi
- The book explores the concept of a missing image of origin
- Quignard writes 'Je n'étais pas là la nuit où j'ai été conçu'
- The work was published in 2007
Entities
Artists
- Pascal Quignard
Institutions
- Flammarion
Sources
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