Aug 15
2010

La Novela Libre and La Novela Ideal were two long-running fiction magazines put out by anarchists in Spain between 1925 and 1938. The largest holding of them appears to be at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. I’ve photographed several of the issues, and the first chapter of and issue titled Love, Sacrifice and Revenge has been translated and is available at the Kate Sharpley Library as well as more information about the author and the series.

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Aug 14
2010

I’m looking for anyone who might be willing to contribute regularly or irregularly to anarchist fiction dot net… I can’t really do it on my own. Anyone out there with an interest in anarchist fiction want to write reviews or news related to anarchist fiction? If so, contact us either in the comments below or by emailing admin [at-symbol] anarchistfiction.net



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Aug 13
2010

I just read Magón’s very short piece The Soldier, as translated by Paul Sharkey. It’s very simple and plain, a basic parable of the ways in which the working class is slave to the owning class. It tells of an interaction between a poor farmer and a poor soldier, and the ways in which the soldier is being duped by the rich.

It’s a classic and unabashed example of fiction-as-propaganda that makes no pretense of objectivity. It exists purely to make a point about class relations.

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Aug 13
2010

From Wikipedia:

Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón (September 16, 1874 — November 21, 1922) was a noted Mexican anarchist and social reform activist. He was born on Mexican Independence Day, in San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca. He died at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas, USA…. He was one of the major thinkers of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican revolutionary movement in the Partido Liberal Mexicano. Flores Magón organised with the Wobblies (IWW) and edited the Mexican anarchist newspaper Regeneración, which aroused the workers against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

Magón is most famous as an activist and revolutionary, but he also wrote a very short story, The Soldier (online at the Kate Sharpley Library).

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