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Сопротивление

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Виктор Серж (Виктор Львович Кибальчич, 1890–1947) – франкоязычный писатель и поэт, выходец из семьи русских народовольцев, эмигрировавших в Европу. С 1919 году работает в Советской республике, затем – попытки создания коммуны неподалеку от Петрограда, участие в «троцкистской» Левой оппозиции, несколько лет ссылки под Оренбургом, освобождение в результате кампании французских писателей, выезд в Европу, запрет на проживание во Франции, наконец, последние годы и смерть в Мексике. Революционер, погруженный в брутальную политическую борьбу, он одновременно «громко говорил правду и продолжал духовные традиции русской революционной интеллигенции в тот момент, когда голоса русских коллег оказались заглушены.., сборник его стихотворений, написанных на Урале, представляет собой уникальную нить преемственности». Вопреки всему, что вынесла постсоветская интеллигенция из «коммунистического» опыта, Серж показал, что политическая ангажированность и художественная состоятельность не только не исключают, но способны органически дополнять друг друга. Поэтому его книгой «Сопротивление» открывается переводная поэтическая серия Свободного марксистского издательства.

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

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Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (В.Л. Кибальчич) was born in exile in 1890 and died in exile in 1947. He is better known as Victor Serge, a Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919, and later worked for the newly founded Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was openly critical of the Soviet regime, but remained loyal to the ideals of socialism until his death.

After time spent in France, Belgium, Russia and Spain, Serge was forced to live out the rest of his life in Mexico, with no country he could call home. Serge's health had been badly damaged by his periods of imprisonment in France and Russia, but he continued to write until he died of heart attack, in Mexico city on 17 November 1947. Having no nationality, no Mexican cemetery could legally take his body, so he was buried as a 'Spanish Republican.'

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June 4, 2012
If we roused the peoples and made the continents quake,
...began to make everything anew with these dirty old stones,
these tired hands, and the meager souls that were left us,
it was not in order to haggle with you now,
sad revolution, our mother, our child, our flesh,
our decapitated dawn, our night with its stars askew...
(1938)

(Since I don't read poetry, and this WAS in translation, there no point in trying to rank this. If anyone has a link
to the French, I'd love to compare them. At any rate, some good writing here)
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June 21, 2015
Poems about being in a gulag by Stalin in 1933. Interesting insights.
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