Lutz Bassmann, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Univ. of Nebraska, $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3991-3
Written in a tersely descriptive prose appropriate for its grim context, this interconnected series of stories by Bassmann (a pseudonym for the French writer Antoine Volodine), is set in an indeterminate future when the human race is dying out, and...
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Antoine Volodine, trans. from the French by Katina Rogers. . Dalkey Archive, $14.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-62897-040-1
Volodine's (Minor Angels) collection captures, in seven linked stories, the essence of tormented fictional European writers who challenge the preconceived notions of the profession. Standouts include "Mathias Olbane," which details the suicide...
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Antoine Volodine. Open Letter, $17.95 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-940953-52-6
Volodine rips readers away from the solid natural laws of our world and makes them confuse centuries for days in this strange postapocalyptic novel. After the fall of the Second Soviet Union and the meltdowns of multiple nuclear power plants,...
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Antoine Volodine, trans. from the French by J. T. Mahany. Open Letter (openletterbooks.org), $12.95 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-940953-11-3
Volodine's books (Minor Angels, Naming the Jungle) aren't so much novels as bizarre games of alternate reality, chronicling the lives and works of the fictitious "Post-Exotic" writers, whose complex and challenging novels and poems have led to their
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Antoine Volodine, trans. from the French by J.T. Mahany. Open Letter, $13.95 trade paper (162p) ISBN 978-1-940953-33-5
The afterlife is just as senseless, erratic, and cruel as life itself in Volodine's darkly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around the Bardo—in Tibetan Buddhism, a realm through which the spirits of the recently dead travel, toward either rebirth...
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Antoine Volodine, trans. from the French by Gina M. Stamm. Woodhall, $22.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1714-2
This seething, sweltering postapocalyptic novel from Volodine (Black Village) follows the eponymous character as he navigates life as a double agent for both the corrupt state apparatus and the denizens of Henhouse Four, an underclass ghetto...
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Antoine Volodine, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator New Press $18.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56584-274-8
The American debut of a French writer is an intense, hallucinatory novel of a man's daring psychological ruse to protect himself from political brutality. Fabian Golpiez, a Jucapira Indian in a fictitious post-revolutionary South American country,...
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