{"id":11699,"date":"2022-03-23T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:20:24","slug":"review-the-agents-by-gregoire-courtois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=11699","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Agents by Gr\u00e9goire Courtois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/courtois.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11155 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/non-fiction\/the-agents-by-gregoire-courtois-translated-by-rhonda-mullins\/\">reviewed<\/a> <em>The Agents<\/em> by Gr\u00e9goire Courtois, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins, for <em>Strange Horizons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the review:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This question, coming near the end of the French surrealistic science fiction novel, <em>The Agents<\/em>, encapsulates the entire two-hundred-plus-page journey that is this strange, hypnotic text. While its implications and lessons are rich and laden with meaning, its characters, setting, and action are all spare, stripped down to the bare bones, just like the forgotten skeleton that Agent Laszlo discovers in an abandoned cubicle\u2014a skeleton that changes his life and the lives of everyone in his tower forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Read the entire review <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/non-fiction\/the-agents-by-gregoire-courtois-translated-by-rhonda-mullins\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently reviewed The Agents by Gr\u00e9goire Courtois, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins, for Strange Horizons. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the review: This question, coming near the end of the French surrealistic science fiction novel, The Agents, encapsulates the entire two-hundred-plus-page journey that is this strange, hypnotic text. While its implications and lessons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=11699\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1116,83,135,1280,1281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}