The Hatred of Music

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PASCAL QUIGNARD is an award-winning French novelist, essayist, critic, translator, and musician. He is the author of more than sixty books and in 2002 won the Prix Goncourt, France’s top literary prize, for The Roving Shadows, the first volume of an ongoing series of genre-defying works entitled The Last Kingdom.

MATTHEW AMOS has held the position of visiting assistant professor of French at Bard College since 2014. He received his Ph.D. in the same year from New York University with a dissertation entitled “Sharing Absence: Experience and Entretien Through Maurice Blanchot.”

FREDRIK RÖNNBÄCK holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University. He has published on Michel Leiris and Georges Bataille and is the translator of several works by Georges Perec into Swedish.