| Title: | Une littérature de l’exil en langue française oubliée : la dénonciation du stalinisme par Panaït Istrati, Victor Serge et Boris Souvarine à travers la trilogie de Panaït Istrati, Vers l’autre flamme (1929) |
| Author: | Alain Vuillemin |
| Publication: | Cultură și identitate românească - Tendințe actuale și reflectarea lor în diaspora, Section Critică și istorie literară |
| ISBN: | 978-973-703-953-8 |
| Editors: | Ofelia Ichim; Luminița Botoșineanu, Daniela Butnaru, Marius-Radu Clim, Florin-Teodor Olariu, Elena Tamba |
| Publisher: | Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” |
| Place: | Iași |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | There are writings that fall into oblivion. Such is the case of a very controversial book, To the other Flame. The Confession of a Loser that Panait Istrati published in October 1929, in Paris, under his own signature, on his return from a long stay in Russia between 15 October 1927 and 15 February 1929 for the Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, at the invitation of the authorities of the new Soviet Union. The book, written and published in French, consists of three volumes entitled After Sixteen Months in the U.S.S.R., Soviets 1929 and Russia Unveiled. The first volume only was written by Panait Istrati. The second was written by Victor Serge. The third was written by Boris Souvarine. These three distinct books are one of the first convictions in Western Europe of the Soviet reality of the world after ten years of turmoil and tragic convulsions. The publication of these books in Paris on October 15, created an immediate violent controversy. The smear campaigns lasted until the death of Panait Istrati in 1935. To the other Flame. The Confession of a Loser remains a relentless premonitory denunciation of Stalinism brought in by these three writers throughout a similar indignation based on a common shared faith in the purest “flame” of the Revolution. It is a terrible testimony, a book of anger, which deserves resurgence of oblivion. |
| Key words: | French-speaking literature, exile, anti-stalinism, bolshevik revolution |
| Language: | French |
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