The Silent Crossing

Pascal Quignard is the author of more than 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, with The Roving Shadows, the first work of nonfiction to win the prize. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. For Seagull Books, he has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays; and André Gorz’s Ecologica and The Immaterial.

Translator’s Acknowledgement
1. (The Infant’s Boat)
2. Louise Brulé
3. Quai de la fausse rivière
4. (Étienne Mallarmé)
5. Laodamia
6. Salomon of London
7. The City from the Other World
8. The Dust Devil
9. (Exile)
10. (Hell)
11. (Cardinal Mazarin)
12. (Nekyia)
13. (Madame de La Fayette)
14. The Last Tourney
15. (La Valliote)
16. (Anne’s Skull)
17. Eternal Damnation
18. (Bellerophon)
19. The Last Abbot
20. (Do not become Yourself)
21. Ipsimus
22. Separate, Sacred Communication
23. (Countess of Hornoc)
24. Whitcomb Judson
25. Ecstasy and Enstasy
26. Impetuous Death
27. De Suicidio
28. (Arria)
29. (Origo atheismi)
30.  Jesus the Suicide
31. Liberty
32. The Definition of ‘The Open’
33. Autarkès
34. Menephron
35. (Dogs and Cats)
36. (The Sadness of Liberty)
37. (Insulae)
38. Marvellous Hatred
39. (Jaw)
40. (The Prague City Clock)
41. Bossuet’s Mouth
42. (January)
43. (Candelmas)
44.(Caesar’s Penultimate Words)
45. (On the Supposed Functions of Death)
46. (The Caterpillar Knows Nothing . . .)
47. The Singing Festivals of the Marais
48. Kingdom of the Shadows
49. (Il Morto)
50. (Vis)
51. The Boat with the Black Flames
52. On the Power Inherent in the Colour Black
53. Pompey
54. (On those Banned from Hell)
55. (Franz Süssmayr)
56. (Philodemus of Herculaneum)
57. Experiri
58. (De reliquo)
59. (On the Chrysanthemum’s Entry into the History of France)
60. (The Umbilical)
61. (The Emperor Alexander)
62. (Rites of the Dead)
63. (Thamus)
64. (The 1878 Epigraph)
65. De atheismo
66. (Atheists and Men of Letters)
67. (Gott ist tot)
68. The Four Theses
69. Superstitiosi, Religiosi, People in Mourning
70. Immortalia ne speres
71. (Death of Henrietta Anne of England)
72. (De natura decorum)
73. The Castle of Grief
74. Post-mortem Assaults on Reputation
75. The Cat
76. (Armida)
77. Porte Saint-Ouen
78. Old Thunderstorm
79. Quomodo dicis quod amas me
80. (Oxford)
81. (Cäcilia Mūller)
82. (François Pontrain)
83. Lille
84. The Bay of Naples in 1552
85. (The Seven Fishermen)
86. Charon’s Bark
Translator’s Notes