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Denisovich, thank you Wikipedia. There were a few fascinating early novels but excellent like The First Circle, Cancer Ward, Stories and Prose Poems.For fans of Dostoyevsky, A Day in the Life . . . makes for a fascinatingly similar situation, emotionally, as D's The House of the Dead almost 100 years earlier and both, at the end of their lives, turned to religion and ultra conservatism in reaction to the Democracy they sought in their youth. Wikipedia lists the editions and translations and which were authorized by or approved of by the author.
Amy
It if be now, 'tis not to come,
If it be not to come, it will be now,
If it be now now, Yet it will come.
The readiness is all.
Wm. Shakespeare
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I would suggest that someone not terribly familiar with the
work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn start with something like "A Day in the Life of Ivan
D." (the D. is actually spelled out to make a last name but I don't feel like
looking it up and couldn't imagine getting it right if I had to guess at the
spelling). It was the first of the Solzhenitsyn prison camp books
and, during the short period when Khrushchev allowed a bit of publishing
freedom, it came out in Russia followed by translations in the rest of the
world. Although one of his shorter works (more like the size of a typical
novel, it brought him to international attention and likely motivated his nobel
prize.
His four
Gulag books (Ivan and the three archipelago novels) make up the really important
publications from his career. After moving from the Soviet Union to
Vermont in 1974, he wrote and published a bunch of historical fiction which
isn't terribly good or considered important in the critical
community.
cdh
Chris Hofstader
CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and
Ends
Skype: BlindChristian
phone: 727-896-6393
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To any fans of Russian Literature:
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn died today at the age of 89. I went and checked the Bookshare
collection and only 4 of his books were listed and only one was a volume
of The Gulag Archipelago, a three
volume history of the Russian & Soviet Prison system. If anyone
would be interested in scanning the other two volumes, or other Books by
him, especially the novels, I would be interested in validating them
though both jobs will take time as most of his books are very
long.
While I was looking I checked Michael Sholokhov's name and
found only one of his books listed. I don't know how long it will take or
if anyone would be interested in scanning his work but I would also be
interested in validating them. His works are available in paperback
and I could scan them if I could get a decent copy.
The Gulags are
very large books and I could not handle books that large and thick as a
scanner. But I could work on any of the books to validate though these
would all be a long project. Solzhenisyn was working on a "compendium" of
his works which, considering his works, I assume to mean a "complete
works" rather than a summarization of them, which would be virtually
impossible even for him.
Any
offers?
Amy
omsm
--
It if
be now, 'tis not to come,
If it be not to come, it will be now,
If
it be now now, Yet it will come.
The readiness is all.
Wm.
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