Research Catalog

Title

Notebooks : 1936-1947 / Victor Serge ; edited by Claudio Albertani and Claude Rioux ; translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor and Richard Greeman.

Author

Serge, Victor, 1890-1947

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Albertani, Claudio
• Rioux, Claude
• Abidor, Mitchell
• Greeman, Richard

Description

xvii, 651 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Victor Serge's Notebooks provide an intensely personal account of the last decade of the legendary Franco-Russian writer and revolutionary. They evoke Popular Front France, the fall of Paris, the 'Surrealist Château' in Marseilles, and the flight to the New World. They are replete with vivid life portraits (Gide, Breton, Saint-Exupéry, Lévi-Strauss), and moving evocations of fallen revolutionary comrades (Gramsci, Nin, Radek, Trotsky) and of doomed colleagues among the Soviet writers (Fedin, Pilniak, Mandelstam, Gorky). Serge's Mexican notebooks provide a fascinating account of his exploration of pre-Columbian cultures and portray political and cultural figures in Mexico City, from the exiles' psychoanalytic circle, to painters like Dr. Atl and Leonora Carrington and poets like Octavio Paz. These writings paint a vivid self-portrait and convey the intense loneliness Serge also felt in these years, cut off as he was from Europe, deprived of a political platform, prey to angina attacks, and anxiously in love with a younger woman"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 2019
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Works. 2019

Subjects

• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Serge, Victor, 1890-1947 > Travel > Mexico
• Serge, Victor, 1890-1947 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Mexico
• Travel

Genre/Form

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 19-3408

ISBN

• 9781681372709
• 1681372703
• 9781681372716 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018029769
• 40029060040

OCLC

1073033168

Author

Serge, Victor, 1890-1947, author.

Title

Notebooks : 1936-1947 / Victor Serge ; edited by Claudio Albertani and Claude Rioux ; translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor and Richard Greeman.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Albertani, Claudio, editor.

Rioux, Claude, editor.

Abidor, Mitchell, translator.

Greeman, Richard, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Serge, Victor, 1890-1947. Notebooks. New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681372716 (DLC) 2018054439

Other Standard Identifier

40029060040

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3408