Art by: Agustín Comotto

Written by: Agustín Comotto

In 1909, an unknown young anarchist from Russia killed the police chief of Buenos Aires. The police investigation revealed that he was Jewish and that he had been in the country for hardly two years. No one knew him, he had no friends, he hardly spoke Spanish and he did not belong to any organization.

  Who was Simon Radowitzky?  Who was that stubborn anarchist who paid for his act 22 years in one of the most ruthless prisons in Argentina? And how  did he - being an absolute stranger-  become one of the most important symbols of the workers’ struggle at the beginning of the century? Because Radowitzky ended up being amnestied in the early thirties as a result of the international workers pressure calling for his cause.

  After his amnesty, Radowitzky traveled to Spain to fight the fascism; in Europe he witnessed the defeat of anarchism but he maintained until the end of his life the idea to keep justice as the only possible form of human
coexistence and he spent his latest years in Mexico with the Spanish Republican exile.

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Key points:

• Through a series of flashbacks, 155 examines the agonies and survival of an exceptional individual

• Comotto pens a harrowing tale in three colours. Among the black-and-white pages are eruptions of red, which symbolise violence, anarchism and exile

Technical info:

• Original title: 155

• Published in Spain by Nórdica Libros (2018)

• 270 pages - full colour - 216 x 280 mm

Rights sold: French (Vertige Graphics), English (AK Press), Spanish Lat. (Planeta), German (Bahoe Books), Arabic (International Affairs)

Territories excluded from representation: Nordic countries, Germany, The Netherlands and Korea