The case of Comrade Tulayev / Victor Serge ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask ; introduction by Susan Sontag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serge, Victor, 1890-1947.

Contributor:

Trask, Willard R. (Willard Ropes), 1900-1980.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Affaire Toulaév. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxx, 362 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2004.

Summary:

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence--at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But "The Case of Comrade Tulayev," unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's" For Whom the Bell Tolls" and Andre Malraux's "Man's Fate."

ISBN:

1590170644

OCLC:

55989626

Publisher Number:

99808083277