Letters of Insurgents

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Letters of Insurgents
Author Fredy Perlman
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Epistolary novel
Publisher Black and Red
Publication date 1976
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 831 pp

Letters of Insurgents is a 1976 novel by Fredy Perlman (under the character aliases Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo) dealing with anarchist themes and relationships.

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The novel is a subtle and complex narrative which takes the form of fictional letters between two Eastern European workers, Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo, who are separated after a failed revolution. Yarostan spends twelve years in statist jails, while Sophie escapes to the West. After twenty-five years without contact, they begin to write each other about their experiences, their lives, their hopes, and their memories of the past.

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