Double Duty
Lorna Scott Fox: Victor Serge, 22 May 2003
Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope
by Susan Weissman.
Verso, 364 pp., £22, September 2001,1 85984 987 3 Show More
by Susan Weissman.
Verso, 364 pp., £22, September 2001,
“... In The Long Dusk, Victor Serge’s novel about the fall of France, his alter ego Dr Ardatov escapes death just as the author did, on a boat out of Marseille in 1941. One of Ardatov’s companions, a much younger woman, Hilda, joins him on deck. She says something intense, he counters with something pompous ... ”