New novels by the legendary French writer Antoine Volodine: “Writers” and “View of the Ossuary.”
The writers Bogdan Tarasyev or Nikita Kurilin, thirteen-year-old Maria Tryst, or Linda Wu—piercing biographies or scenes from life—and not only—presented in Antoine Volodine’s latest novel are, in essence, different from the author himself only in that they are purely fictional figures, since for their writer only the name is invented. All of them are outcasts and loners, victims and martyrs, possessed and invincible—the facets of his unique writerly personality, and of the universal archetype of the writer as he imagines it.