It may not be immediately clear why anyone should bother to demolish Nisard. Who on earth, after all, is De sire Nisard? A nineteenth-century literary critic, pedagogue, and member of the Acade mie Franc aise, an ardent champion of the glories of seventeenth-century France, an implacable foe of the [...]

From Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book's pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In Minor Angels Volodine depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism hav[...]