The novels of Victor Serge

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

So I've really been getting interested in Victor Serge lately. He kinda fascinates me.....an anarchist who became a bolshevik and worked for the comintern, long-time critic of Stalin who was ultimately expelled from the Party and basically exiled from the country. Later became active in the POUM and warned them of Stalin's coming repression (they didn't listen).

But what I'm interested in is his novels. He wrote a sequence of seven 'witness' novels about the lives of revolutionaries in the early 20th century, obviously inspired by his own experiences.

My question is: who here has read them? Would you recommended them?

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I've read The Case of Comrade Tulayev and it's really good. I feel that it almost reads like a snapshot into all the different people on the left Serge met throughout his life before and after being exiled but it's not turgid and boring and offers some great perspectives. His Memoirs and Year One of the Russian Revolution are brilliant as well and I'm going to pick up Conquered City which I hear is good.