Introduction

Above all, he is gifted with sensitivity and an exceptional narrative genius, unequalled in contemporary literature. [...]SubStance is pleased to devote this issue to him, with contributions from readers who are not only talented but who have strongly contributed to Antoine Volodine's internati...

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Published inSubStance Vol. 32; no. 2; p. 3
Main Author Jean-Didier Wagneur
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.05.2003
Subjects
Avant-garde
Contemporary literature
Critics
Exoticism
Literary theory
Modernity
Novels
Russian literature
Writers
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Summary:Above all, he is gifted with sensitivity and an exceptional narrative genius, unequalled in contemporary literature. [...]SubStance is pleased to devote this issue to him, with contributions from readers who are not only talented but who have strongly contributed to Antoine Volodine's international reception.2 If I may be allowed to drop the formality required by this introduction, I will say a few words about my encounter with Volodine's work. [...]all the material that had constituted the revolutionary avant-gardes, the terrorists' subversive practices (largely relegated to the warehouse of accessories of textual obsession) returned in Volodine's work and threw critics into confusion. [...]this text is in no way a manifesto, since its effects only concern the fictional, Volodinien universe, and one cannot imagine other "real" writers espousing his thought. [...]post-exoticism has its own rhetoric, and to speak of virtual literature here is not a figure of speech.
ISSN:0049-2426
1527-2095
DOI:10.1353/sub.2003.0049