Univocal #: Solo Viola

A Post-Exotic Novel

Univocal #: Solo Viola
Antoine Volodine, Lia Swope Mitchell
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Paperback
h203 x 137mm - 112pg
11 May 2021 US
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9781517911195
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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 a variety of characters collide: three prisoners just released from jail, a band of circus performers, a string quartet, a writer, and a bird. All are trying to survive in an absurd and hostile environment of authoritarian spectacle, at the mercy of a tyrannical buffoon, and seeking the strange counterbalance of hope in a viola player, whose stunning music just might save them all, if only for a moment.

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Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel

"Antoine Volodine' s Solo Viola is a deft evisceration of fascism, seen through another lens and dislocated to a fantastical world. Volodine, here and elsewhere in his hugely important work, shows how the political and the fantastical can be intertwined in a way that allows a powerful reevaluation to occur--a reevaluation that feels all too starkly relevant to twenty-first-century America. "--Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
Antoine Volodine has written more than forty novels, using various heteronyms in his ongoing post-exoticism project. Other works in translation include Radiant Terminus, We Monks and Soldiers by Lutz Bassman, and In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Drager. Lia Swope Mitchell holds a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her translations include Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman (Minnesota, 2018). Lionel Ruffel teaches comparative literature and creation litteraire at Universite Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). His most recent works include Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary (Univocal/Minnesota, 2017).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781517911195
Published: 11 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 137mm
Spine: 25mm
Pages: 112

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