The Case Of Comrade Tulayev

Victor Serge, Susan Sontag

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NYRB Classics
15 June 2004

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A classic and atmospheric novel, set during the Stalin era, filled with suspense, mystery and adventure.

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.

By: Victor Serge
Introduction by: Susan Sontag
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 124mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781590170649
ISBN 10: 1590170644
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 June 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victor Serge (1890-1947) was born in Belgium of a Russian family. Affiliated from his early youth with the anarchist movement, he made his way to Russia, where he was an active participant in the Revolution from 1919 on. Because of his adamant opposition to Stalin, Serge was driven into exile in Mexico and France, during which he wrote his legendary Memoirs of a Revolutionist and a series of novels closely based on his own life. Susan Sontag has written novels, stories, essays and plays; written and directed films; and worked as a theatre director in the United States and Europe. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. Among her recent books are the novel In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction, and Regarding the Pain of Others.

Reviews for The Case Of Comrade Tulayev

One of the great 20th-Century Russian novels...there are extraordinary passages of natural description, a beauty that defies what takes place within it.-- Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianThe brilliance of his novel utterly ineluctable as it sweeps across 1930's Europe from the gulags to the Kremlin, to Paris and to Barcelona.-- The Times (London) The Case of Comrade Tulayev is gritty and rough, saturated in the squalor of Moscow life; but it also pulses with lyrical flights that take us up into the stars, which represent for Serge the regenerative, transformative moments the History promises but has yet to deliver. Tulayev is infused with mysticism; it is a work of cosmic longing, as if Serge is turning to the eternity of the universe itself to avoid the utter despair right in front of his face.-- Matthew Price, BookforumIt is a protest novel no less significant and no more dated than Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. These novels recreate the feel of daily existence years ago, animate the history texts, and give readers an irreplaceable personal perspective. Books like these ensure the past is not forgotten....The quality of life depicted in The Case of Comrade Tulayev showed why the Stalinist monolith could not endure.-- Joe Auciello, Socialist ActionGiven the standard of fortitude, and given the contempt Serge always felt for Stalin's collaborators, a remarkable feature of The Case of Comrade Tulayev is its chiaroscuro....That Serge intended no lenience here we may be sure, but we may likewise be sure that he would never have swallowed the later euphemisms and half-truths of Khrushchev, putting blame for all the enormities of an epoch on the evil of a single individual.-- Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly Serge can recognize the range of experience and responses that make up the texture of life in even the most nightmarishly repressive system.-- Scott McLemee