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Antoine Volodine's The Monroe Girls (Book acquired, 13 Feb. 2026)

There is an old saying, some may say a cliche, but nevertheless it rings as wisdom in my waxy ears: The best time to read a Volodine was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. Maybe start with Volodine’s 2021 novel The Monroe Girls, forthcoming in translation by Alyson Waters from Archipelago. Their jacket copy: Breton has seen brighter days. Now his body sags as he pulls a pair of…

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It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams

Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido lives in a decaying ghetto called Henhouse Four, an eerie quarter inhabited by indigents, junkies, and other remnants of failed uprisings who must contend with the giant mutated birds who terrorize the…

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The horrors and oneiric aberrations of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel, Radiant Terminus

Antoine Volodine’s novel Radiant Terminus is a 500-page post-apocalyptic, post-modernist, post-exotic epic that destabilizes notions of life and death itself. Radiant Terminus is somehow simultaneously fat and bare, vibrant and etiolated, cunning and naive. The prose, in Jeffrey Zuckerman’s English translation, shifts from lucid, plain syntax to poetical flights of invention. Volodine’s novel is…

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Antoine Volodine interviewed at the Evergreen Review

Antoine Volodine interviewed at the Evergreen Review

Antoine Volodine is interviewed by Andrew Wilson at The Evergreen Review. The interview focuses on Volodine’s 1990 novel Lisbon, Last Frontier. (Wilson’s translation of the first chapter of Lisbon, Last Frontier was recently published in The Evergreen Review). The interview touches on a number of subjects, including Volodine’s invented genre, post-exoticism. From the interview:

AW: Is…

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© Didier GaillardWe both discovered Antoine Volodine, appropriately enough, in winter. One of us was sitting in a classroom overlooking bare trees, translating the first pages of Des Anges mineurs (Minor Angels). The other one of us had just read the same novel in English and was sleepwalking through the dark, snowy streets of Rochester... Read More »

Antoine Volodine talks about “post-exoticism.”

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“There wasn’t any apocalypse, but we’re already somewhere beyond the end.”

--Antoine Volodine, “Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two,” translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman in The New Inquiry.