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Dizzy with Defeat

By: Hannah Proctor

The newly published notebooks of the Russian-Belgian revolutionary Victor Serge record the bitter defeats of the twentieth century, but contain within them a boundless curiosity about the world and a stubborn hope for the future.

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In Christian Petzgold’s 2018 film Transit, a man assumes the identity of a dead anti-Nazi writer. He circles, alongside other refugees, between bureaucrats in Marseille, in an attempt to secure the requisite paperwork to leave Europe. Although it is based on a 1944 novel by the German Jewish Communist Anna Seghers, the film is set […]

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In Christian Petzgold’s 2018 film Transit, a man assumes the identity of a dead anti-Nazi writer. He circles, alongside other refugees, between bureaucrats in Marseille, in an attempt to secure the requisite paperwork to leave Europe. Although it is based on a 1944 novel by the German Jewish Communist Anna Seghers, the film is set […]

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In Christian Petzgold’s 2018 film Transit, a man assumes the identity of a dead anti-Nazi writer. He circles, alongside other refugees, between bureaucrats in Marseille, in an attempt to secure the requisite paperwork to leave Europe. Although it is based on a 1944 novel by the German Jewish Communist Anna Seghers, the film is set […]

In Christian Petzgold’s 2018 film Transit, a man assumes the identity of a dead anti-Nazi writer. He circles, alongside other refugees, between bureaucrats in Marseille, in an attempt to secure the requisite paperwork to leave Europe. Although it is based on a 1944 novel by the German Jewish Communist Anna Seghers, the film is set […]

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