A stanza from Bertolt Brecht’s poem “To Those Born Later” might have served as an epigraph for Victor Serge’s memoir: I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger reigned there. I came among men in a time of revolt And I rebelled with them. So passed my time Which had been given me on earth. Victor Kibalchich (“Serge” was a nom de guerre) was born in 1890 (...)
September 14, 2012
Books
Witness
Memoirs of a Revolutionary Victor SergeTranslated by Peter Sedgwick with George PaizisNew York Review of Books, $17.95, 521 pp.
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