Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

An "utterly brilliant" graphic novel biography of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg (Guardian).

" . . . a tour de force . . . a straightforward and intellectually honest introduction to [Luxumburg's] politics and theoretical contributions." -Los Angeles Review of Books

A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. 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 World War I, 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.

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.