Abstract
Abstract The present article addresses issues related to the preservation of revolutionary memory, and to the role of acts of writing and reading in securing the continuity of the revolutionary impetus that brings about new beginnings. The role of memory is discussed through a comparison between two seminal texts on revolution that are not usually read together: Gustav Landauer’s Die Revolution (1907) and Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution (1963). It argues that both texts attempt to avoid the risk of reducing revolution to an object of historical inquiry and to keep the “spirit of revolution” alive by employing unconventional narrative techniques and ascribing a central role to literature.
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