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- Title
MEMORY AND FANTASY IN ANTOINE VOLODINE'S MINOR ANGELS.
- Authors
PRATA, ANA FILIPA
- Abstract
The fictional world of "post-exoticism" created by Antoine Volodine commonly shows ravaged worlds or characters struggling to survive, following a catastrophe. Minor Angels, published in 1999, is an important example of this project: it is a novel consisting of forty-nine "narracts" or testimonies of survivors of a major and unpredicted disaster; imprisoned men, immortal witches or hybrid creatures emerge from these peculiar narratives challenging temporal and spatial boundaries. In this essay, I will be looking at Minor Angels from the perspective of memory formation within a "post-exotic" realm that focuses on revolutionary failures, post-crisis situations, and dystopic scenarios narrated by several personages, fashioning a complex and multiple universe, in which fantasy can hardly be distinguished from reality. This article aims to discuss how in this novel recollection and repetition are discursive reactions foreseeing a stabilization of major historical traumas and fears of the last century, depicting at the same time the abject experienced in a world where meaning has collapsed.
- Subjects
MINOR Angels (Book); DYSTOPIAS in literature; TRAGEDY (Trauma)
- Publication
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 2015, Vol 81, p239
- ISSN
0927-5754
- Publication type
Article