Permanent Revolution

Viva Mexico, capital of freedom in the thirties, where cross without meeting Leon Trotsky and Malcolm Lowry.Autour his two heroes Deville organizes brilliantly macabre farandole at the Posada where we meet Breton, Artaud, Arthur Craven , Traven and, of course, the group broke up soon Modotti, Rivera, Kahlo, Siqueiros ... Troskystes and Stalinist excommunicate, tear and murder in the city-world, which are lost in mezcal and peyote writers and artists. "Heroes of Plutarch" according Deville, the organizer of the Red Army is the epicenter of intersecting destinies more than parallel lives, which gives the author an opportunity to take beautiful evocations ( Modotti, the "beautiful Van" Traven, etc;. can nevertheless reproach him for his severity towards Breton).
Deville therefore wrote a tribute to the city that has seen together for a few years this "band of brothers" who believed in the Art and Revolution, the miracle of the author's style is to avoid this cumbersome that could have been thick and would have liked diffus.Stendhal these short sentences, very worked without affectation, gathered in short chapters of great density.
And the end of the book is very beautiful: the "Ferris wheel" of life and the revolution continues to rotate, Subcomandante Marcos is born when Lowry and die Rivera.Viva ... life and revolution, anyway!
Let us also pay tribute to Deville, who gives his list of references at the end of the book, including "bunny" dear to the Consul.
Outstanding book for "happy few" (or "band of brothers", so), which will be reflected in the names and allusions, the reader devoid of political references, literary and / or Mexican will risk getting lost.