Writers Contributor(s): Volodine, Antoine (Author), Rogers, Katina (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628970405 ISBN-13: 9781628970401 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2014003173 |
Series: French Literature |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.40 lbs) 108 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |