A Fragmentary History of Trashcan Literature

Documents found in Lutz Bassmann’s cell after his death, among photographs and newspaper clippings: 30 fragments preserved in the archives of the Surveillance Services under the number 467008764346765.

1. There is “revolutionary novel” tradition, at least since the first Soviet avant-garde post-revolutionaries.

2. The idea of a coinciding between political invention (to change life) and literary invention has haunted all revolutionary utopias (in any case, all the writers closely or distantly linked to the upheavals of the first insurrection).

3. (As he has admitted to two journalistic virtuosos, paid by the dominant ideology and specializing in celebrities and writing), our principal writer (sometimes called Antoine Volodine) is marked by both the great texts of the Russian poetic and novelistic avant-garde (from the 1920s) and by the great days of the Carnation Revolution (Europe/Portugal/1974).