Self-described 'Frenchman from the East, Humanist, rationalist with religion, Catholic with a Jewish intelligence...What an oddity!', best known for writing about the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and rise of nationalism from his exile in Paris, shares his thoughts on the Russian Revolution in his 'Trotsky novel', written in 1928, and never published in the author's lifetime; translated by David Le Vay.
