Black Village

Two men and a woman, who barely know each other, travel in the darkness that has settled after their deaths. They must learn to coexist in this hopeless world, where not only darkness confronts them — time here stretches and compresses, but, above all, it is interrupted. To outline landmarks in their journey, they tell each other stories. But no matter the content of these stories — thrilling adventures, violence, revenge, dreams, criminal missions — they are interrupted in the middle of the action. Images are born, plots ignite, but suddenly a mysterious force intervenes and ruthlessly destroys the narrative. Lutz Bassmann, born in 1952 in Jelgava (Latvia) and serving a life sentence since 1990, is one of the post-exotic alter egos of the French writer Antoine Volodine. Mentioned first as the hero of one of the works, he soon published a whole series of works in various genres — from novels to soklati and tales.