Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel |
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| Author:
| Volodine, Antoine |
| Foreword by:
| Ruffel, Lionel |
| Translator:
| Swope Mitchell, Lia |
| Series title: | Univocal Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4529-6560-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.