Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Humanist Philosophy witty and witchy imagination is

witty and witchy imagination is in full force in stories that transform everyday realities into miraculous other worlds

compiled by celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa

” His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality

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Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Humanist Philosophy witty and witchy imagination isA harrowing early novel by one of Frances most unusual contemporary writers At once humorous and horrifying, Solo Viola is one of Antoine Volodines 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