Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel

Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel

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Author/Contributor(s): Volodine, Antoine ; Swope Mitchell, Lia
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date: 05/11/2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW

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.