Viva

Patrick Deville takes us into the heart of the tumultuous events in thirty chapters filled with anecdotes, historical facts, and fateful encounters. Trotsky, who has been stripped of his Soviet citizenship, is on the run. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera advocate for Mexico to grant asylum to the fallen revolutionary. In 1936, Malcolm Lowry traveled to Acapulco and then to Cuernavaca. He began and completed "Under the Volcano." Malcolm Lowry admires Trotsky, who was himself a gifted writer, and the idea of a worldwide revolution. As always in Patrick Deville's work, we encounter those individuals who have made themselves immortal through their actions, the successes and failures of their ideas: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, the enigmatic B. Traven, André Breton, and Antonin Artaud, in search.