Antoine Volodine

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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Antoine Volodine has been hailed as one of the most innovative and accomplished writers in France today. Compared by critics to Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Volodine weaves an unusual novel of political and psychological intrigue in a lush, exot...

• Dec-2008
• / Literary
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From Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book’s pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In Minor Angels Volodine depicts a postcat...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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Here we have the anatomy of the contemporary writer, as imagined by the pseudonymous, "post-exotic" Antoine Volodine. His writers aren't the familiar, bitter, alcoholic kind, however; nor are they great, romantic, tortured geniuses; and least of a...

• May-2015
• / Science Fiction
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"The interconnected works of Volodine -- think Faulkner, but after an apocalypse -- constitute the most exciting project in contemporary French literature." -- Maria ClementiThat is what we had called post-exoticism. It was a construction connected t...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary." -- Nicholas Hauck, Music & LiteratureOne of Volodine's funniest books, Bard...

• Feb-2017
• / Science Fiction
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"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary." -- Music & LiteratureThe most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's t...

• May-2021
• / Dystopian
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A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers  At once humorous and horrifying, Solo Viola is one of Antoine Volodine’s first forays into post-exoticism. He takes the reader into a fictional world where...

• Jul-2024
• / Literary
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A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, Mevlido’s Dreams is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage...