Writers
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.
Originally published in French as Ecrivains by Seuil, Paris, 2010.
- Author
- Antoine Volodine
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 108
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781628970401
- Genres
- fiction, france
- Release date
- 2014
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