Swastika Night
Constantine, Murray
£60.00
Swastika Night
By Murray Constantine
Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1940. Left Book Club Edition. Hardback without dust jacket. Red boards with black titles. Approx 19cm H x 13cm W. 196pp
Book condition: Used. Very Good. Corners a tad bumped; Outer page edges tanned; Some discolouration, esp to spine; No splits. Inside is clean and tight and has a previous/original owners name neatly printed in blue ink; No further marks within; No tears or annotations; Age tanning to pages and page edges. Overall Condition: Very Good
An important dystopian novel written by Katharine Burdekin under the pseudonym of Murray Contantine,
Murray Constantine (1896-1963) was a pseudonym for the feminist writer Katharine Burdekin (née Cade). Burdekin began using the pseudonym Murray Constantine in 1934 allegedly to protect her family from the risk of repercussions and attacks. Several of her novels, political in nature and strongly critical of fascism, have been described as feminist utopian/dystopian fiction. Murray Constantine's true identity was not confirmed until two decades after her death.
Swastika Night takes place seven centuries after the Nazis won the Second World War. The "inferior races" have been eliminated and the remaining Christians are persecuted for not worshiping and accepting Hitler's divinity. The Nazi world Burdekin describes is a strange feudal society based on female submission, militarism, extreme patriarchy and violence.