Pascal Quignard is a French novelist, essayist, critic, translator, and former musician. He is the author of more than sixty books and in 2002 won the Prix Goncourt, France’s top literary prize, for his genre-defying The Roving Shadows. He lives in France. Matthew Amos is visiting professor of French, Bard College. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Fredrik Rönnbäck has published on Michel Leiris and Georges Bataille and has translated several works by Georges Perec into Swedish. He lives in Sweden.