Publisher Description

"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."-Mike Davis"Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."-Tariq AliLeon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs- and can alter-our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life.William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems.

Author Biography

Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life, The History of the Russian Revolution, and The Revolution Betrayed. Keach is Professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems (Penguin, 1997) and author of Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (2004).

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Long Description

"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."--Mike Davis "Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight."--Tariq Ali Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs-- and can alter--our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of My Life . William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems .

Description for Sales People

This classic book has been out of print for years, though it is a reference point for many debates on aesthetics and politics This edition is the first to include explanatory notes on the many artists and writers Trotsky discusses in the work. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been revived interest in the work of Trotsky, who was exiled, persecuted, and eventually murdered by Stalin.

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