Antoine Volodine, the miserable tomorrow

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Antoine Volodine publishes "Les filles de Monroe", published by Le Seuil.

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It is a huge psychiatric city, ruled by a totalitarian regime, plunging us into a simulacrum of a ruined Soviet system.

We are in the realm of illusions, between the living and the dead, between the nurses and the sick, between the police and the dissidents.

Antoine Volodine takes us into a dark and rainy farce, in which the absurd and the madness combine to wreak a spell on murderous totalitarianism and revolutionary illusions. 

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He is the writer of post-exoticism, or rather one of the writers of post-exoticism, since there are four of them contributing to this singular romantic edifice, which must include 49 novels.

Finally, four writers in one so to speak, since the words of Lutz Bassmann, those of Manuela Draeger, those of Elli Kronauer and those of our guest Antoine Volodine come out of the same matrix, which builds stone after stone a work for four voices in which magical realism intersects with political fiction and post-apocalyptic poetry. 

Monroe's Daughters

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by Antoine Volodine is published by Editions du Seuil. 

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