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

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 imagi...

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