“Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight.”—Tariq Ali Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs— and can alter—our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes. was a leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and is the author of . is a professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge’s