by Milovan Djilas ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 7, 1958
In this first volume of his autobiography, Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia and author of the historically important best-seller The New Class, deals with his life up to the time he departed for the university at eighteen. As readers of The New Class know, Djilas, a Communist, is highly critical of present Communist states, and in his autobiography he carries his search for the ideal state of justice back to earlier times when he was a youth and studies the harsh environment and heroically proud people of turbulent Montenegro that formed him into an intellectual and leader of the revolution. It is a brutal and primitive portrait that he paints, filled with dramatic history and people, recorded with an unsentimental eye and a poet and philosopher's pen. Although overly detailed and repetitious, this is an unusual document by virtue of its subject and its author's world importance.
Pub Date: May 7, 1958
ISBN: 0156481170
Page Count: -
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Review Posted Online: N/A
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1958
Categories: NONFICTION
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