Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven
by Antoine Volodine
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"The interconnected works of Volodine--think Faulkner, but after an apocalypse--constitute the most exciting project in contemporary French literature."--Maria Clementi That is what we had called post-exoticism. It was a construction connected to revolutionary shamanism and literature. . . . It was an interior construction, a withdrawal, a secret welcoming land, but also something offensive that participated in the plot of certain unarmed individuals against the capitalist world and its show more countless ignominies. This fight was now confined solely to Bassmann's lips. Like with Antoine Volodine's other works (Minor Angels,We Monks & Soldiers),Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven takes place in a corrupted future where a small group of radical writers--those who practice "post-exoticism"--have been jailed by those in power and are slowly dying off. But before Lutz Bassmann, the last post-exoticist writer, passes away, a couple journalists will try and pry out all the secrets of this powerful literary movement. With its explanations of several key "post-exoticist" terms that appear in Volodine's other books,Lesson Eleven provides a crucial entryway into one of the most ambitious literary projects of recent times: a project exploring the revolutionary power of literature. Antoine Volodine is the author of dozens of books under a few different pseudonyms, including Lutz Bassmann and Manuela Draeger. These novels--several of which are available in English--articulate a post-exoticist universe filled with secrets, revolutionary writers, and spiders. J. T. Mahany is a graduate of the University of Rochester's MA in Literary Translation Studies program and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. show lessTags
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How to describe this book? The 11th lesson of Post-Exoticism appears to be that Post-Exoticism cannot be understood by anyone outside of the prison system; not only can it not be understood, it does not want to be understood. For Post-Exotics prison is a lesser hell than the hell of living in a politically retrograde valueless capitalist society. They are, all of them, political dissidents who refuse to be assimilated, who refuse even to use the same linguistic conventions as deemed acceptable to the "free" world.
A heady and tough read. Volodine's perpetual task is to make clear the theoretical and literary style of Post-Exoticism, as if to make it intelligible, but then refuses that intelligibility is possible for anyone who is not show more part of the Resistance. show less
A heady and tough read. Volodine's perpetual task is to make clear the theoretical and literary style of Post-Exoticism, as if to make it intelligible, but then refuses that intelligibility is possible for anyone who is not show more part of the Resistance. show less
"The media had relegated egalitarianism to the rank of causes not only lost, but obsolete and forgotten."
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- Il post-esotismo in dieci lezioni, lezioni undicesima
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Science Fiction
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- 843.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PQ2682 .O436 .P6913 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1961-2000
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