For the centenary of the Great October Revolution, Darko Suvin propose to examine some of its epistemological-cum-political implications and lessons for today. Suvin starts from the lessons of the first, and probably still the most stimulating examination on how to understand and react to painful history: some relevant aspects of Walter Benjamin’s so-called Theses on the Concept of History.
Darko R. Suvin, scholar, critic and poet, born in Yugoslavia, studied at the universities of Zagreb, Bristol, the Sorbonne, and Yale, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.
