This short novel by the French writer Antoine Volodine came out in the mid1990s and in part deals with French reckoning with both their role within the Cold War but more specifically with their role as fading empire in various parts of the world. We are witnessing a series of speech acts and interviews in a kind of criminal or political investigation in a former colonial space or more specifically what seems to be an authoritarian context in some kind of South or Central American […]

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