David Harvey famously opined that Paris was ‘a capital city being shaped by bourgeois power into a city of capital’, hence his focus on the organisation of relations of space in Paris, Capital of Modernity. It is an insight that Victor Serge may well have approved given the writer’s own [...]
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Beyond the six novels written by Victor Serge, that make up the two informal trilogies on the ‘cycle of revolution’ [Men in Prison; Birth of Our Power; Conquered City] and the ‘cycle of resistance’ [Midnight in the Century; The Case of Comrade Tulayev; The Long Dusk] there [...]
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Continuing with my series on Victor Serge and closing the second informal trilogy that comprises the ‘cycle of resistance’, as defined by Richard Greeman, The Long Dusk [1946] is the sixth novel translated into English. The book is extremely rare and hard to come across and [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s fifth novel to be featured in my series is a masterly work. The focus of a new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers , The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated in [...]
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Recommencing my series of posts on the novels of Victor Serge, I focus now on what Richard Greeman has recognised as the ‘cycle of resistance’ in the second informal trilogy comprising Midnight in the Century [1939], The Case of Comrade Tulayev [1942], and The [...]
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One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in Annals of the American [...]
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The wealthy classes know only too well how to juggle away revolutions: “Abracadabra!”
Picking up on my series of posts on Victor Serge, my attention now turns to his second novel in the ‘cycle of revolution’, Birth of Our Power, where the narrative moves from a failed [...]
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Following the publication of my article on ‘The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge’, in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, my thinking has returned to collating a series of posts I had previously written on the novelist. These will now be collected on Progress in [...]
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