Overwriting Chaos : : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds / / Richard Tempest.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Tempest, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (750 p.)

Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine them as figures of flesh and blood and thought and feeling. The study discusses Solzhenitsyn's treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games à la Nabokov or even Borges; exploration of erotic themes; and his polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism. Also included is new information about the writer's life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempest's interviews with him in 2003-07.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Preface -- Timeline of Solzhenitsyn's Life and Works -- Part One. THE WRITER IN SITU -- 1. The Quilted Jerkin: Solzhenitsyn's Life and Art -- 2. Ice, Squared: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" -- 3. "Turgenev Never Knew": The Shorter Fictions of the 1950s and 1960s -- 4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution -- 5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle -- 6. Rebel versus Rabble: Cancer Ward -- Part Two. THE WRITER EX SITU -- 7. Twilight of All the Russias: The Red Wheel -- 8. Return: The Shorter Fictions of the 1990s -- 9. Modernist? -- Appendix. Three Interviews with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003-7) -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index