{"id":6668,"date":"2012-07-16T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2012-07-15T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:11:07","slug":"four-short-links-victor-serge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/2012\/07\/16\/four-short-links-victor-serge\/","title":{"rendered":"Four short links: Victor Serge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve read quite a few of Victor Serge’s (Victor Lvovich Kibalchich’s) fictional and autobiographical works recently, and have come to the conclusion that he is a truly remarkable writer – indeed one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century. My plan to write a longer post or two about his work has stalled somewhat, so as a taster, here are some other links.<\/p>\n

1. A decent selection of Victor Serge’s writings can be found on the Marxist Internet Archive<\/a>, and various essays by and about him are also available at Revolutionary History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. As one would expect, the consistently informative and interesting Poumista<\/strong> has a good round up of writings on Serge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. On the NYRB Classics blog A Different Stripe<\/strong> (NYRB doing sterling work as publishers of Serge in the last few years), Richard Greeman writes about Serge’s Political Testament<\/a>.\u00a0See also the recent post on Serge’s son Vlady Kibalchich’s paintings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. A thought-provoking analysis of Serge’s modernism in his brilliant Barcelona-set novel\u00a0The Birth of Our Power<\/a>, by The Anatomy Lesson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also worth reading are a couple of recent reviews of Memoirs of a Revolutionary<\/em> – by Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian<\/a>, and \u00a0John Gray in The New Statesman<\/a>. My own thoughts on\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Memoirs\u00a0<\/em>will appear here in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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