Unforgiving Years

Victor Serge, Richard Greeman, Richard Greeman

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French

New York Review of Books
15 December 2007

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

A New York Review Books Original

Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying

journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's

final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most

ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer's works.

The

book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements

of a symphony. In the first, D, a lifelong revolutionary who has broken with the

Communist Party and expects retribution at any moment, flees through the streets

of prewar Paris, haunted by the ghosts of his past and his fears for the future.

Part two finds D's friend and fellow revolutionary Daria caught up in the defense

of a besieged Leningrad, the horrors and heroism of which Serge brings to terrifying

life. The third part is set in Germany. On a dangerous assignment behind the lines,

Daria finds herself in a city destroyed by both Allied bombing and Nazism, where

the populace now confronts the prospect of total defeat. The novel closes in Mexico,

in a remote and prodigiously beautiful part of the New World where D and Daria are

reunited, hoping that they may at last have escaped the grim reckonings of their

modern era.

A visionary novel, a political novel, a novel of adventure, passion,

and ideas, of despair and, against all odds, of hope, Unforgiving Years is a rediscovered

masterpiece by the author of The Case of Comrade Tulayev.

By: Victor Serge
Introduction by: Richard Greeman
Translated by: Richard Greeman
Imprint: New York Review of Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN: 9781590172476
ISBN 10: 1590172477
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 15 December 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Unforgiving Years

Unforgiving Years, published in France in 1971 and translated into English this year, is a visionary literary work rooted in the political tragedy of a Soviet secret agent who tries to take back his existence from the Party. The settings are prewar Paris, the siege of Leningrad, the fall of Berlin, and a postwar refuge in Mexico. This is the ultimate farewell to Communism. -- The Boston Globe <br> The Unforgiving Years. ..has now at last been translated into electric English by the indefatigable Richard Greeman...It's a seething, hallucinatory novel... -- Harper's <br> Born in Brussels of Russian revolutionary exiles, Serge (1890-1947) has long had a reputation as polemicist and journalist, but this powerful novel of the descent into WWII makes a strong case for his political fiction...Serge remains sophisticated even during the book's more noirish moments, and action sequences form an inseparable part of his hypnotic, prophetic vision. -- Publisher's Weekly (Starred R