Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony
By (Author) Clement Duval
PM Press
PM Press
30th November 2012
United States
General
Non Fiction
365.34092
Paperback
218
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
323g
In 1887, Clement Duval joined the tens of thousands of convicts sent to the dry guillotine' of the French penal colonies. Few survived and fewer were able to tell the stories of their life in that hell. Duval spent 14 years doing hard labour, espousing the values of anarchism and demonstrating the ideals by being a living example the entire time, before making his daring escape and arriving in New York City to be welcomed by the Italian and French anarchists there. Much more than an historical document, it is a remarkable tale of survival.'
Clment Duval was an infamous 19th-century French illegalist, propagandist, and anarchist. Michael Shreve is a writer, a translator, and a language teacher. His works include first English translations by Voltaire, Jean Meslier, Marcel Schwob, and John Antoine Nau. Marianne Enckell is an author, an editor, a translator, and a librarian at the International Centre for Research on Anarchism.