Midnight in the Century (NYRB Classics)

New York Review of Books

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UPC:
9781590177709
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12/16/2014
Release Date:
12/16/2014
Author:
Serge, Victor
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
Main
Pages:
240
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In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalins 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, Serges searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalins 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.