20th century fiction
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In the First Circle
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Lenin
literary biography
Love the Revolution
medical novel
modernism
Nietzsche
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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philosophy
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realism
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Solzhenitsyn
solzhenitsynovedenie
Soviet censors
Soviet fiction
Soviet history
soviet literature
Soviet Russia
Stalin
The Red Wheel
Turgenev Never Knew
twentieth-century fiction
war prose
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- ISBN 9781644694602
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 2003-7.
Richard Tempest is an associate professor at the University of Illinois who studies the interactions between Russian and Western culture. His novel Zolotaya kost, about the adventures of a time-traveling American professor, was published in Moscow in 2004. Tempest’s current research focuses on charismatic politics in the twenty-first century.
