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Pascal Quignard's work was present in Italy throughout the first half of the 1980s, when Garzanti and Frassinelli published several translations of his books. After, though, the translations began to slow down and over time his work was forgotten. The translations only picked up again in 2014, following an encounter between a psychoanalyst and avid reader of Quignard, and a soprano, the founding director of Analogon, a small publishing house which had thus far been dedicated to music. The «Entelechia» collection was launched, aimed at publishing Pascal Quignard's works. Bute was published in December 2014, followed, in January 2016, by Sull'idea di una comunità di solitari and the previously unpublished Vita e morte di Nitardo. A further publication is planned for early 2017, combining Triomphe du temps and La voix perdue in one volume. Undoubtedly Pascal Quignard's work will soon be much more prominent in Italy, but this editorial project will always have the privilege of having answered the call of this literature, of having sowed some of its seeds, knowing that the smallest stone thrown in the still waters of a lake will inevitably cause some ripples. For this project to come to light, two worlds had to meet-the world of a musician enchanted by words and the world of an author who left «music in suffering».

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