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Antoine Volodine

    1 gennaio 1949

    Antoine Volodine è un autore francese noto per il suo singolare stile letterario, che definisce "post-esotismo". Sebbene alcune delle sue opere siano apparse in raccolte di fantascienza, la sua scrittura resiste a una facile categorizzazione, offrendo un'esperienza più profonda ed elusiva. Utilizza diversi pseudonimi, in particolare Lutz Bassmann, per esplorare complessi destini umani e temi senza tempo con una visione poetica distintiva.

    Antoine Volodine
    Alto solo
    Des anges mineurs
    Einige Einzelheiten über die Seele der Fälscher
    Mevlido's Dreams
    Radiant Terminus
    Solo Viola
    • Solo Viola

      • 112pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      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.

      Solo Viola
      4,0
    • Radiant Terminus

      • 500pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      "The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade people's dreams--including those of his daughters--and torment them for thousands of years. When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyei's commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity. Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally funny, Radiant Terminus is a key entry in Volodine's epic literary project that--with its broad landscape, ambitious vision, and interlocking characters and ideas--calls to mind the best of David Mitchell"-- Provided by publisher

      Radiant Terminus
      3,9
    • Im Zentrum von Volodines Roman steht ein außergewöhnliches Paar: das ehemalige RAF-Mitglied Ingrid Vogel und ihr Jäger aus dem BKA, der sich anhand ihres Fahndungsfotos unsterblich in sie verliebt hatte. Dennoch oder gerade deswegen verhilft er ihr zur Flucht. In den letzten gemeinsamen Tagen in einem Lissabon a là Pessoa steht zwischen ihnen Ingrids titelgebender Schlüsselroman über den Untergrundkampf, den sie im fernen Exil schreiben will, den der Geliebte ihren Gedanken abliest: Literarische Polit-Fiction voller Rückbezüge auf den Terrorismus der 70er-80er Jahre. Mit großer poetischer Kraft und unbezähmbarer Phantasie entwirft Volodine ein Requiem auf die Nachkriegswelt, nimmt dazu die gängigen Totalitarismen auseinander, verpasst seiner Frustration über das zwangsläufige Scheitern aller Revolutionen einen teils schmerzlichen, teils erschreckend humorvollen Ausdruck. Atmosphärisch von enormem Sog.

      Einige Einzelheiten über die Seele der Fälscher
      4,0
    • Des anges mineurs

      Narrats

      • 224pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      49 brefs chapitres se répondent, dans lesquels apparaissent et disparaissent les héros et anti-héros de cette évocation poétique d'un monde dévasté, dans lequel une apocalypse ou un changement de régime a eu lieu. Un roman à la fois triste et jubilatoire, une sorte de tableau de fin du monde, envoûtant, délirant, sensuel.

      Des anges mineurs
      4,0