Red Rosa

Description

A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa

Luxemburg A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the

foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. To Marx''s

biographer Franz Mehring, no one came as close to the towering intellect of

Marx himself. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself

heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She

overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become

an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an

incredibly productive and creative life – her many friendships, her sexual

intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art. Always opposed to the

First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of

nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a

revolution she knew to be doomed. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a

radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic

biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject''s

intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg''s ideas in the

realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.