{"product_id":"dying-of-thinking-the-last-kingdom-ix-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePascal Quignard\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than sixty books 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, with \u003ci\u003eThe Roving Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50535359447314,"sku":"9781803092423","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_26ae27bd-523c-4590-9092-b73f8993d0e8.jpg?v=1731432713","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dying-of-thinking-the-last-kingdom-ix-9781803092423","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}