Viva

In 1937, when exiled fugitives Trotsky and his wife land in the small port city of Tampico in Mexico, Cuernavaca is hosting Malcolm Lowry, who would shake the literary world with his novel Under the Volcano. In Mexico, which had made its revolution ten years before Russia under the leadership of names such as Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, the paths of many artists and intellectuals, from the mysterious B. Traven to Arthur Cravan, André Breton to Antonin Artaud, Tina Modotti to Octavio Paz, cross. Staying at the homes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during his first days in Mexico, Trotsky met with the French as the fourth emperor. He will also start working on the International here.

Bringing together a revolutionary and a literary genius under the same volcano, author Deville draws a magnificent historical picture by bringing together the cities, revolutionaries, artists and murderers of Mexico with the encounters, dreams and struggles of many famous characters who passed through Mexico. The novel, which has two geniuses very close and very far away at its center, is a dizzying journey into the heart of an era when political idealism and the cult of literature walked hand in hand.