Antoine Volodine closes the post-exotisme project with eleven books published the same day
Eleven titles from eleven different publishers, all signed under one name, mark what the author presents as the end of a 41-year literary undertaking, according to France Culture.
Antoine Volodine has brought his decades-long literary project known as post-exotisme to a close with an unusual publishing gesture: eleven books, released on the same day by eleven different publishers, all carrying a single signature, that of Infernus Johannes, according to France Culture's programme Mauvais Genres.
The broadcast describes the operation as a 'coup de maître' meant to conclude 41 years of what it calls Volodine's literary 'pérégrination' — a body of work built around invented authors, alternate narrators and a fictional carceral world that the writer has developed since the 1980s under his own name and a series of heteronyms.
France Culture's account gives no further detail on the individual titles, their publishers, or their contents beyond the fact of simultaneous publication under the Infernus Johannes signature. For readers who have followed post-exotisme across its many volumes and voices, the coordinated release across eleven houses stands as the stated final chapter of the enterprise.
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