num_pages: 350
description: “Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky’s vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture.”—Mike Davis“Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight.”—Tariq AliLeon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs— and can alter—our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life.William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge’s Complete Poems.
language: English
title: Literature and Revolution
titlecomplete: Literature and Revolution
genres: History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Russia, Literature, Nonfiction, Theory, Art, Politics
ratings_count: 369
publisher: Haymarket Books