Article: Antoine Volodine. Minor Angels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Antoine Volodine. Minor Angels. Trans. and preface Jordan Stump. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2004. 166 pp. $25.00.

The Young Marble Giants song "Final Day" could serve as Minor Angels's soundtrack: a single sci-fi theremin note hovers over a quavering organ, muted, downpicked guitar, and a plain but lovely female voice that sings about the final day, the world lighting up for the last time only to fall into endless night "for the people who never had a say." The song ends all too soon, and the theremin drops off as if snuffed. It's the sound of the world ending not with a bang or whimper but a resigned sigh, both harrowing and gorgeous. Similarly, Minor Angels ...

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