Victor Serge

The Writer as Witness

Victor Serge
Richard Greeman
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Hardback
h230 x 150mm - 400pg
20 Apr 2021 UK
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9780745334769
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Victor Serge (1890-1947) was famous both as a revolutionary and a novelist. A stateless Russian who wrote in French, he has successively an anarchist, a syndicalist, a Bolshevik, a persecuted anti-Stalinist, and a supporter of the Spanish POUM. Greeman and Abidor' s biography seeks the core unity of Serge' s multiple facets in his underlying devotion to revolutionary probity and respect for the individual. ' The Writer as Witness' emphasizes Serge' s fiction and traces his personal, political and artistic evolution through the series of identity crises that punctuated his eventful life. It is also a work of cultural history, placing Serge in the context of what he called the ' Vanished Worlds' of early 20th Century radicalism. Based on interviews, original letters and archival research collected in five countries over 50 years, this critical biography compliments Serge' s justly celebrated ' Memoirs of a Revolutionary' intended as a political-historical rather than autobiographical work.
Richard Greeman has translated and prefaced five of Victor Serge' s seven novels, most recently ' Unforgiving Years' (2008). Active internationally since the 1950s in civil rights, antiwar, antinuclear, environmental and labour struggles, Greeman is author of ' Beware of Capitalist Sharks' and co-founder of the Victor Serge Library in Moscow, Russia.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780745334769
Published: 20 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 230mm
Width: 150mm
Pages: 400

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