The Case of Comrade Tulayev
by:
Victor Serge (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299573482 (1299573487)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Politics,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
France
This is supposed to be a classic about life under Stalin. I very much enjoyed those sections of the novel that describes places and scenes. The author's words draw a picture that you clearly see, be it the feel of the air on a frosty night or a street in Moscow. Likewise, I found the Communists’ man...
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/02/review-case-of-comrade-tulayev-by.html
Moving novel describing the dangerous political intrigue that led to pointless executions during the Stalinist era. Beautifully written and with a fascinating forward by Susan Sontag.
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