Antoine Volodine completes his post-apocalyptic cycle with 'Retour au goudron'
The French writer, who has built a singular body of work since 1985 under several pseudonyms, closes an eleven-volume sequence published under the name Infernus Iohannes.
Antoine Volodine has published "Retour au goudron", according to France Culture, which presents the book as the final volume of a sequence of eleven works issued under the name Infernus Iohannes.
Since 1985, Volodine has built a body of work set in a post-apocalyptic world haunted by betrayed revolutions and by the genocides of the twentieth century, France Culture notes. The programme describes the completed eleven-volume sequence as laying "the last stone" of that construction.
Volodine is known for writing under several names attached to different strands of the same fictional universe, of which Infernus Iohannes is one. The France Culture summary gives no further detail on the plot of "Retour au goudron" or on its publisher.
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