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L'affaire Toulaev : Un roman révolutionnaire

par Victor Serge

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Victor Serge met le roman au service de son idéal révolutionnaire, de son communisme strict. Toute l'atmosphère de terreur stalinienne nous est restituée dans ce livre qui met en scène Romachkine, employé de bureau, et son jeune voisin Kostia, qui supprimeront Toulaév, le chef du Comité central. C'est à ce moment précis que l'affaire Toulaév débute. Et l'implacable processus est enclenché: les suspects ne se comptent plus... [SDM]… (plus d'informations)
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Unheralded superlative work. Craftsmanship excellent. Thoughts, feelings of characters well written. Tragedy portrayed with perfect distance from characters -- not too impersonal, but not so personal that you lose a sense of the objectivity of the tragic injustice. Serge expresses eloquently how devotion of a true believer allows intelligent revolutionaries to violate their innocence and confess. Not unrelated to contemporary culture. Serge preceded Solzhynitsyn, Shamalov, Pasternak, Olga Ivanskaya in their exposing the Soviet justice system. Particularly poignant was Serge's portrayal of Kondratiev's meeting with "the Chief." He never mentions Stalin's name. Serge connects and ties the novel together in the final short chapters. How an innocent, solitary bureaucrat gives a pistol to a party stalwart who impulsively shoots an apparatchik, only to activate the execution of innocent victims. Written over several years from Paris, Marseille, Dominical Republic and Mexico, this work stands out as memorable literature transcending its Stalinist setting. Serge died of heart attack in Mexico City, 1947. Like other fine writers who died early, this work makes you wish he had lived longer to write more. ( )
  forestormes | Feb 4, 2023 |
An excellently broad and empathetic story written with the style of classical Russian narrative, that moves through a selection of diverse characters living in Stalin's Russia. Serge's writing allows the characters to become individual figures that are also metaphors for the block unity of the Soviet people. The last few pages conclude with a letter that is reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator, with a powerful philosophical punch, highlighting the author's divided opinion on the utopian ideals of the October Revolution, and the complexity of its aftermath. Sometimes the writing is a little dated (nearly all of the characters are male; at times the writing is too obvious) but the book is extremely enjoyable, often funny, and well paced. ( )
  ephemeral_future | Aug 20, 2020 |
There are aspects of this which I confuse with Yury Dombrovsky; both Faculty of Useless Knowedge and Serge's Case of Comrade Tulayev affected me deeply. The gradual ratcheting in this one was amazing. ( )
  jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
This book is set during the late 1930's, at the height of the Stalinist purges. Comrade Tulayev, a high party official, is assassinated in a random, unplanned crime of opportunity by an anonymous clerk. The system demanded convictions, and thus began a series of prosecutions of innocent long-time party members. They are arrested and interrogated. In some cases, false confessions are elicited. Some of those arrested are exiled; some are executed.

No one is exempt. Even High Commissar Erchov, who was the official initially conducting the investigation, is arrested. Even men who were close friends with Stalin. Even Deportee Ryzhik, who prior to his arrest, had lived for many years thousands of miles from the scene of the crime, in exile in a remote Siberian village peopled only by a few peasants and one government official stationed there as his guard.

This book was recommended to me after I read The Whisperers, a nonfiction history of the Stalinist years and its effects on ordinary Soviet people. While The Case of Comrade Tulayev explores similar issues, the people it focuses on are, ironically, some of the very people who created the system that allowed the purges to occur. Highly recommended. ( )
  arubabookwoman | May 3, 2017 |
A good, but not great, read

This book was a bit too wandering for my taste. I had expected a tightly-woven plot, but the author digressed too much with philosophical musings.
  oparaxenos | Nov 27, 2015 |
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The post-1934 spy fever may have had a core of rationality when it began, or was inaugurated, but its special feature was the sheer mania and panic in which it engulfed society, becoming an exhausting, unstoppable thing in itself. At one point (Doris Lessing describes it somewhere in her account of abandoning communism) medieval instruments of torture were taken from Russian museums and deployed in the cellars and interrogation pits of Stalin’s police. The image is perfect for evoking the choking medieval nightmare of plague-dread, xenophobia, and persecution that enveloped the Soviet Union and destroyed the last remnants of its internationalism. If the characters and automatons of The Case of Comrade Tulayev understand any one thing, it is the idea that the enemy is everywhere, and everyone...

Given the contempt Serge always felt for Stalin’s collaborators, a remarkable feature of The Case of Comrade Tulayev is its chiaroscuro, in one passage the monstrous figure of “The Chief” is represented as a prisoner of fate, only pretending to arbitrate the destiny of a sixth of the earth’s surface and of every one of its inhabitants... In its remorseless emphasis on the ineluctable along with its insistence on the vitality of individual human nature, The Case of Comrade Tulayev is one of the most Marxist novels ever written—as it is also one of the least.
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Victor Serge met le roman au service de son idéal révolutionnaire, de son communisme strict. Toute l'atmosphère de terreur stalinienne nous est restituée dans ce livre qui met en scène Romachkine, employé de bureau, et son jeune voisin Kostia, qui supprimeront Toulaév, le chef du Comité central. C'est à ce moment précis que l'affaire Toulaév débute. Et l'implacable processus est enclenché: les suspects ne se comptent plus... [SDM]

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