Solo viola : a post-exotic novel /

Solo viola : a post-exotic novel /

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Author / Creator:	Volodine, Antoine, author.
Uniform title:	Alto solo. English
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Description:	xv, 91 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A Univocal book Univocal book.
Subject:	Ex-convicts -- Fiction. Musicians -- Fiction. Political fiction. Psychological fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12594180

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Other authors / contributors:	Mitchell, Lia Swope, translator.
ISBN:	9781517911195 1517911192 9781452965604
Notes:	Originally published in French as Alto Solo, copyright Les Éditions de Minuit, 1991. Translated from the French.
Summary:	"In one of his first forays into post-exoticism, Antoine Volodine takes the reader into a fictional world where a variety of characters collide"--
Other form:	Online version: Volodine, Antoine Solo viola Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021] 9781452965604

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Originally published in French as Alto Solo, copyright Les Éditions de Minuit, 1991. Translated from the French.
Physical Description:	xv, 91 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9781517911195 1517911192 9781452965604