Black Village

By: Lutz Bassmann, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 March 2022

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204 Pages

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Tassili, Goodmann, and Myriam. Two men and a woman dressed in rags—former poets, and former members of a dystopian military service—walk the bardo, the dark afterlife between death and rebirth. The road is monotonous and seemingly endless. To pass the time, they decide to tell each other stories: bizarre anecdotes set in a post-apocalyptic world, replete with mutant creatures, Buddhist monks, and ruthless killers. The result is a mysterious, dreamlike series of events, trapped outside of time as we know it, where all the rules of narrative are upended and remade.

Lutz Bassmann is one of the heteronyms of French author Antoine Volodine. Black Village gives readers of science fiction and experimental literature another exciting look into âpost-exoticism,â one of the most ambitious and original projects in contemporary literature.

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"With Black Village, Lutz Bassmann, a heteronym of Antoine Volodine, pens a collection of rare intensity, carried by writing of staggering power. By breaking the codes of narrative, by upsetting genres, he offers, within the disaster that this book tells, a literature that reinvents and affirms the infinite potential of language."--Art Press

"Ambiguity and gloom blend in this collection of stories to work the reader into a wonderful confusion. But it's a useful confusion, one that expresses something fundamentally true about the world."--Full Stop

"Bassmann crafts a subtle and lively reflection on the weight of literature in the face of the dramas of our time."--Livres hebdo

"From book to book, Volodine has been building a multifaceted universe for thirty years, deeply original, arguably one of the most opinionated and ambitious in French literature today."--L'Opinion

"Disturbing, funny, and poetic, this narrative nebula reminds us that a story ends above all in the minds of those who receive it."--Lire

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