A Blaze in a Desert
Selected Poems
ISBN-13: 9781629633992
Author(s): Victor Serge
Subjects: DC
Publisher: Pm Press
Publisher Imprint: Pm Press E Books
Publication Date: 22-06-2017
Format: Ebook
Availability: In stock
£5.99
About the book
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, Marseille, the Caribbean and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen - as well as prospective elegies for the living who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century.