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 moreNation Magazine Very rewarding: there's pleasure in the texts themselves, and there's a sense of a much larger whole, which, with more effort, might slowly be grasped. Complete Review Show Less