Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel
Antoine Volodine, "Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel "
English | ISBN: 1517911192 | 2021 | 112 pages | EPUB | 371 KB
English | ISBN: 1517911192 | 2021 | 112 pages | EPUB | 371 KB
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.