Solo Viola

A Post-Exotic Novel

Antoine Volodine, Lia Swope Mitchell

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452965598
• Year: 2021

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. 

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents •
• Foreword •
• Afternoon of May 27
• Evening of May 27
• Morning of June 27