Birth of Our Power
A Fiction, World War I, Cultural book. With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong...
Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I, when the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain. Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it. Serge’s “tale of two cities” is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city “we” could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9780904613490 / 904613496
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With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong man; by means of his awareness of how impossible it is to live, he raises himself precisely to a higher possibility of living, to an endurance which is more sure of itself because it believes it has nothing more to lose. From his weakness he was able to create a strength; from his despair, an acquiescence; from his acquiescence, a hope... Victor Serge, Birth of Our Power //
Another excellent read from Serge. The man was a superb craftsman. Love it. Part two of Serge's 'defeat in victory, victory in defeat' semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, each book essentially chronicling his time in Europe during the First World War, being incarcerated (which is what Men in Prison dealt with - see my review) in France and then, on release, traveling to Barcelona whilst that City is in... Outside-view narration...I know it is an instrument, where the People (not individuals) are supposed to be the actors, but I seriously cannot immerse into it at all.
