Jean-Louis Hippolyte teaches French culture, literature, and film at Rutgers University (Camden). He is currently working on a project related to the importance of paranoia as a key paradigm of contemporary art and fiction, with a focus on global animation.
Antoine Volodine (b. 1950) does not exist, not exactly. He is one of the authors and the self-titled spokesperson of postexoticism, a movement that comprises 49 authors to date, with a total prod…