Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg
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 the First World
War, 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.