Victor Serge: 18 books

Providing a complete picture of Victor Serge’s relationship to anarchist action and doctrine, this volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon...

Startlingly human and unflinchingly honest, this thinly veiled fictionalized firsthand account of talented political writer Victor Serge’s time in prison is an important addition to the canon of prison writing as well as an unfiltered view of humanity in the early 20th century. Rejecting the opportunity...

A cento anni dalla Rivoluzione d’Ottobre cosa sappiamo di quegli eventi? Quanto è rimasto nelle generazioni più giovani di quella storia complessa, violenta, alla lunga perdente – e tuttavia animata da un profondo afflato ideale, guidato da ideali di uguaglianza, giustizia e libertà –,...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Victor Serge. "L'Affaire Toulaév" est sans doute le plus beau roman de l'écrivain et journaliste Victor Serge, auteur des célèbres "Mémoires d'un révolutionnaire". Il peut aussi être lu comme un document historique de première grandeur. Remarquablement...

En un quart de siècle, l’Européen d’aujourd’hui a vu la guerre mondiale, des révolutions victorieuses, des révolutions vaincues, une révolution dégénérée, les fascismes, la crise économique, le réveil de l’Asie, de nouvelles guerres coloniales... On comprend qu’il soit las et...

« Le sort de la révolution se décidait dans une petite station à peu près inconnue, à 70 kilomètres de Kazan. Ce qui restait des forces soviétiques se cramponnait à cette petite station de Sviajsk. Elle fermait aux blancs la route fluviale de Nijni Novgorod et la ligne Kazan-Moscou. C’était,...

Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works.   The...

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...

Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I, when the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in...

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at...

NYRB translations have given new attention to the works of Victor Serge

Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the 'immense shipwreck' of Stalin's ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris,...

Written by a participant and sympathizer in the events Title will benefit from renewed interest in Serge following the recent translation of several of his novels by The New York Review of Books

Written by a sympathizer and participant in the events Title will benefit from renewed interest in Serge following the recent translation of several of his novels by the New York Review of Books