Victor Serge

Bill Marshall is a Lecturer in the Department of French Studies, University of Southampton

'That the first book-length study of Victor Serge should not be published until 101 years after his birth is a scandal. Fortunately Bill Marshall's excellent book was worth waiting for ... After Marshall's book, there can be no excuse for not seeing Serge as one of the major French-language writers of our century. Marshall deserves a wide readership; if he succeeds in persuading more people to read, study and teach Serge, he will have achieved his purpose.'French Studies

• The political itinerary; consciousness and the self; literature and revolution; contradiction and commitment; bureaucracy and dissent; the 1940s and the fate of dissent.