Novels
- Naming the Jungle (1996)
- Minor Angels (2004)
- Bardo or Not Bardo (2016)
- Radiant Terminus (2017)
- Solo Viola (2021)
Collections
- We Monks and Soldiers (2012)
Novels Book Covers
Collections Book Covers
Antoine Volodine Books Overview
Naming the Jungle
In France, Antoine Volodine’s lush surrealist style has been compared to Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, with some critics hailing him as a literary successor to Robbe Grillet. Naming the Jungle tells the story of Fabian Golpiez, a rebel in Puesto Libertad’s recently concluded civil war. As officials of the newly installed military dictatorship question him, Golpiez feigns madness. What ensues is a hypnotic interplay between inquisitor and madman.
Minor Angels
From Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book’s pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In Minor Angels Volodine depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home all of them apparently immortal resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Though conjured to crush the rebirth of capitalism, the grandson is instead seduced by its charms only to fall back into the hands of his creators, where he manages to forestall his punishment by reciting one narract a day. It is these narracts, or prose poems, that compose the text of Minor Angels. 20061204
Related Authors