{"product_id":"last-times-paperback","title":"Last Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRichard Greeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Serge's epic novel of the fall of France, is based--like much of his fiction--on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris in June 1940 and joined the chaotic mass exodus south to the unoccupied zone on foot with nothing but his manuscripts. He found himself trapped in Marseille under the Vichy government, a persecuted, stateless Russian, and participated in the early French Resistance before escaping on the last ship to the Americas in 1941. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExiled in Mexico City, Serge poured his recent experience into a fast-moving, gripping novel aimed at an American audience. The book begins in a near-deserted Paris abandoned by the government, the suburbs already noisy with gunfire. Serge's anti-fascist protagonists join the flood of refugees fleeing south on foot, in cars loaded with household goods, on bikes, pushing carts and prams under the strafing Stukas, and finally make their way to wartime Marseille. \u003ci\u003eLast Times\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid eyewitness account of the city's criminal underground and no less criminal Vichy authorities, of collaborators and of the growing resistance, of crowds of desperate refugees competing for the last visa and the last berth on the last--hoped-for--ship to the New World.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/b\u003e (1890-1947) was a revolutionary Marxist and a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Among his works available in English are the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Case of Comrade Tulayev\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnforgiving Years\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConquered City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMidnight in the Century\u003c\/i\u003e; an autobiography, \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e; and a collection of journal entries, \u003ci\u003eNotebooks: 1936-1947\u003c\/i\u003e (all available as NYRB Classics). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (1907-1992) was the translator of more than one hundred books. After Manheim's death, the PEN Medal for Translation, which he won in 1988, was renamed in his memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Greeman\u003c\/b\u003e has translated and written the introductions for five of Victor Serge's novels. He splits his time between Montpellier, France, and New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699652038719,"sku":"9781681375144","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7b902d8b39372c4e236480f2dfeb7eb8.webp?v=1765014048","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/last-times-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}