Antoine Volodine Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

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.

"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

Set in the 22nd century, the city of Oulang-Oulane is ruled by a totalitarian regime where genetic mutations are rampant. Aside from the ruling class, which advocates extreme capitalism, the population lives in poverty. Mevlido, a 49-year-old police officer, resides in the slums of Poulailler Quatre, tasked with monitoring the Bolsheviks who threaten to overthrow the government. However, he secretly supports the revolutionaries as a double agent. Trapped in his traumatic memories and haunted by visions of the woman he loved, who was murdered by child soldiers during the last war, Mevlido wanders through nightmares and reincarnations. The moon looms large, terrorist attacks against it increase, and torrential rains alternate with extreme heat. From a young age, men exhibit brutal, beastly behavior, while birds become humanized and speak. Temporal boundaries have dissolved, intertwining life, dreams, and death in a hallucinatory vision.

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.