... pronouncements and a discussion of their implications, this essay argues that Antoine Volodine’s dark fiction offers tools for imagining why one might assert the validity—if not the productivity—of dark modes of thought. Specifically, it shows how Volodine’s darkness explores literary intransitivity and defiant...

..., Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 1). 40. Antoine Volodine, Le Post-exotisme en dix leçons, leçon onze , Paris, Gallimard, 1998. 41. On sait que la « tristesse bestiale » qui accompagnait, « dissimulée sous la ferveur », le prophétisme décliniste de Cioran, alimenté par les thèses d’Oswald...

... French fiction. To take but two, we might think of Jean Echenoz and Antoine Volodine as authors who have, in radically different ways, engaged with traditions of genre fiction (the roman noir, science fiction and speculative fiction, etc.) while also drawing abundantly on modernist and postmodernist...