Part two of Serge's 'defeat in victory, victory in defeat' semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, each book essentially chronicling his time in Europe during the First World War, being incarcerated (which is what Men in Prison dealt with - see my review) in France and then, on release, travelin...
"Serge searingly evokes the epochal hopes and shattering setbacks of a generation of leftists."BookforumFollowing in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by world war, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century....
oh so well written fictional accounts of the 'true left' and their troubles in ussr after stalin decides they are dangerous and need liquidating. you see, they wanted to take back the revolution from what turned into the ridiculous and obscene 'bourgeoisie bureaucracy" and still fight for the li...
A New York Review Books Original Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this n...
Men at Bay Born in the Arctic, sweeping across the sleeping forests along the Kama, slow-falling, eddying snowstorms, before which packs of wolves fled here and there, bore down on Moscow. They seemed to be torn to shreds over the city, worn out by their long journeyings through the air, suddenly...
The typesetters have the use of a shelf under the type fonts. They add a stool, a cardboard box for type characters, and a little shelf for soap. Dillot, the seminarist, who killed his brother after endless quarreling over a two-thousand-franc inheritance, has made himself a sort of altar out of ...
MESSAGES III. MESSAGES Every time Engineer Botkin had a questionnaire to fill out (. . . 15. What are your social origins? 16. What did you do before the Revolution? . . . 21. Have you belonged to any political parties? . . . 25. Have you been imprisoned under the Soviet regime?), he declared him...