Midnight in the century
By: Victor Serge ; translated from the French and with an introduction by  Richard Greeman
Contributors: Greeman, Richard
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781590177709; 9781590177969
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Fiction; History; FICTION / Historical; FICTION / War & Military; FICTION / Political
Work titles: S'il est minuit dans le siècle
Description: "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--true believers in a cause that no longer exists--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"--