Literature and Revolution

"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*.