Living in Hope

Description

A story in two parts: Part I tells the story of The Paris Commune itself from a grassroots perspective, and will be of interest to those familiar and unfamiliar with what Marx called a "civil war" in France. Part II follows an academic living in Paris, obsessed with the events of The Paris Commune, haunted by the atrocities of 'bloody week', when the men and women who took part in the revolutionary government were slaughtered in their hundreds on the streets of the city. She meets another young woman and her children, similarly stalked by the past, and trying to make a new life in Paris during the pandemic. A brand new story by award-winning short story author, poet and translator David Constantine. Published as an eBook single by Comma Press to mark the anniversary of The Paris Commune.