Fiction in the Libertarian Labyrinth

I am not sure there is any way forward but to gather together the fruits of the last couple of decades or research and present them for use, as if there was an audience ready and willing to use them. And since we’re talking about works deemed insufficiently commercial even for the niches filled by anarchist publishers and academic presses, the way to do that is through print-on-demand volumes. So the next phase of the Corvus Edition story involves a line of collections published through Lulu.

Saint-Ravachol: Ravachol spent his life as a sort of criminal jack-of-all-trades—smuggler, counterfeiter, grave-robber, murderer, bomber—and then, at the end of that career, was made a secular saint, “the violent Christ of anarchy.” And he was hardly the only one of the illegalists and attentateurs who was subsequently mythologized. Indeed, in the long war between anarchists and the agents of capitalism and the state, mythology has been a tool used on both sides. The items collected here are drawn from that war and are part of a literature in which history and myth are often inextricable. The collection includes items previously […]

A Female Nihilist, a collection of writings about women in the Russian Nihilist movement, published by Corvus Editions, is available for download in pdf. Stepniak’s play, The New Convert, is also available in pdf. General & Introductory Introducing The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “The Term ‘Nihilist’” (1887) Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893) Mlle. Achristoff “The Nihilist Rebellion” (1879) [coming soon] Sophie Bardin “Russian Revolutionary Heroines” (1881) Vera Figner Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891) “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892) “Imprisoned Twenty Years” (1904) Hubert Church, […]