A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France.
Victor Serge (1890-1947) was a revolutionary Marxist and a writer
of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Among his works available in
English are the novels The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Unforgiving
Years, Conquered City, and Midnight in the Century; an
autobiography, Memoirs of a Revolutionary; and a collection of
journal entries, Notebooks- 1936-1947 (all available as NYRB
Classics).
Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) was the translator of more than one
hundred books. After Manheim's death, the PEN Medal for
Translation, which he won in 1988, was renamed in his memory.
Richard Greeman has translated and written the introductions for
five of Victor Serge's novels. He splits his time between
Montpellier, France, and New York City.
"Serge is also the laureate of the light in the dark, a writer
sensitive to flashes of beauty. . . . [E]verything that glows is
precious to Victor Serge, is a source of wonder, a glimmer of
possibility beyond the catastrophe of the present." —Ben
Lerner, The New York Review of Books
"Serge knows how class and patriotism cut across one another in
complex ways. . ."—Sean Sheehan, The Prisma
"To read Last Times is to watch an accelerating catastrophe. Watch
is the operative word. Serge’s novel suggests a treatment for a
social disaster movie. Written in the midst of World War II, it
spans a bit more than a year, from the capture of Paris in June
1940 to the German invasion of the Soviet Union the following June,
and often evokes a three-hour film epic with an all-star
international cast." —J. Hoberman, New York Times Book Review
"In what is (no mean feat) perhaps his bleakest novel, Serge holds
a mirror up to French society, and Western democracies in general."
—Marcus Hijkoop, LARB
"[Victor Serge's] work has always been a testament to the spirit of
liberty, to the individual’s stubborn endurance against the
tyrannical systems that seek to crush them. Serge could have easily
been lost to history, but his unwillingness to go quietly has left
us with a body of work that makes him impossible to forget, and
because of this, he has indeed survived." —Jared Marcel Pollen,
LARB
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