Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 9780268105013

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Автор: Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr
Название: Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
Перевод названия: Александр Солженицын: Между двух жерновов. Книга 1
ISBN: 9780268105013
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Автобиографии деятелей литературы

Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 0268105014
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 480
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 30.11.2018
Серия: The center for ethics and culture solzhenitsyn series
Язык: English
Размер: 171 x 246 x 41
Ключевые слова: Memoirs,European history,Cultural studies
Подзаголовок: Sketches of exile, 1974вђ“1978
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Russian Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result of the publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time and was considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists and reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings.

Between Two Millstones contains vivid descriptions of Solzhenitsyns journeys to various European countries and North American locales, where he and his wife Natalia (“Alya”) searched for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating descriptions of one-on-one meetings with prominent individuals, detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard University commencement, comments on his television appearances, accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents who mishandled the Western editions of his books, and the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also passages on Solzhenitsyns family and their property in Cavendish, Vermont, whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where he could finally work undisturbed on his ten-volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution, The Red Wheel. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper education for the writers three sons, their desire to return one day to their home in Russia, and descriptions of his extraordinary wife, editor, literary advisor, and director of the Russian Social Fund, Alya, who successfully arranged, at great peril to herself and to her family, to smuggle Solzhenitsyns invaluable archive out of the Soviet Union.

Between Two Millstones is a literary event of the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of Solzhenitsyns separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western society.

Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978, Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr