Midnight in the Century
Author(s): Victor Serge
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.
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One of Victor Serge's most brutally stunning works, Midnight in the Century transforms into fiction Serge's real-life imprisonment in the Gulag in 1934 and later exile, as first depicted in his nonfiction masterpiece, Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
General Fields
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- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : 0.227
- : 01 March 2015
- : 221mm X 132mm X 13mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 240
- : Paperback
- : Victor Serge
