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Midnight in the Century

By Victor Serge

Midnight in the Century

By Victor Serge

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In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin's betrayal of the revolution. Among the exiles gathered in the town of Chenor, or Black-Waters, are the granite-faced Old Bolshevik Ryzhik, stoic yet gentle Varvara, and Rodion, a young, self-educated worker who is trying to make sense of the world and history. They struggle in the unlikely company of Russian Orthodox Old Believers who are also suffering for their faith. Against unbelievable odds, the young Rodion will escape captivity and find a new life in the wild. Surviving the dark winter night of the soul, he rediscovers the only real, and most radical, form of resistance: hope.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2014-12-16
Publication Date:
2014-12-16
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590177703
ISBN13:
9781590177709
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
250 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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