Letters of Insurgents is a 1976 novel by Fredy Perlman

Fredy Perlman

Fredy Perlman was an author, publisher and activist. His most popular work, the book Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, details the rise of state domination with a retelling of history through the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan. The book remains a major source of inspiration for...

 (under the character aliases Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo) dealing with anarchist themes and relationships.

Plot introduction

The novel is a subtle and complex narrative which takes the form of fictional letters between two Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

an 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

Western world

The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...

. After twenty years without contact, they begin to write each other about their experiences, their lives, their hopes, and their memories of the past.

External links

• Letters of Insurgents free audiobook from the Audio Anarchy project
• Letters of Insurgents on-line text at The Anarchist Library