Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s.

In this book, therefore, he undertakes to reconsider the rejection of consequentialism.

Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard’s masterful exploration of the power of music and what history reveals about the dangers it poses.

A Western tale turned on its ear and filled with strange characters and surreal situations.