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Writers
Antoine Volodine
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Description for Writers
Paperback. Translator(s): Rogers, Katina. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
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 all are they media darlings and socialites. No, in Volodine's universe, the writer is pitted in a pathetic struggle against silence and sickness--that is, when she's not about to be murdered by random lunatics or fellow inmates. Consisting of seven loosely interlocking stories, "Writers" is a window onto a chaotic reality where expressing oneself brings along with it repercussions both absurd and frighteningly familiar. ... Read more
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 all are they media darlings and socialites. No, in Volodine's universe, the writer is pitted in a pathetic struggle against silence and sickness--that is, when she's not about to be murdered by random lunatics or fellow inmates. Consisting of seven loosely interlocking stories, "Writers" is a window onto a chaotic reality where expressing oneself brings along with it repercussions both absurd and frighteningly familiar. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970401
SKU
V9781628970401
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About Antoine Volodine
Antoine Volodine (born 1950) is the pseudonym of a French writer. One of his other pseudonyms is Manuela Draeger.
Reviews for Writers
His talent surfaces time and again in luxurious, hypnotic ways... [Volodine] has written the type of open-ended work that will capture the attention of lovers of lit crit as fiction. Publishers Weekly Clever and incisive. New York Times Book Review His quirky and eccentric narrative achieves quite staggering and electric effects... Dazzling in its epic proportions and imaginative scope. The ... Read more