Midnight in the century
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Author
Contributions
- Greeman, Richard - Contributor
Publication
2014 - New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL31020301M
- ISBN-139781590177709
- OCLC Control Number873984999
- Library of Congress Control Number2014013726
Classifications
- DDC843/.912
- LCCPQ2637.E49 S213 2014
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"--
Subjects
Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
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