Stories and Prose Poems (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374534721 ISBN 13: 9780374534721

Verlag: FSG Adult, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poemsStories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century.
When the two superb stories "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the Moscow Literary Gazette, the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite the liveliest interest." The novella For the Good of the Cause and the short story "Zakhar-the-Pouch" in particular--both published in the Soviet Union before Solzhenitsyn's exile--fearlessly address the deadening stranglehold of Soviet bureaucracy and the scandalous neglect of Russia's cultural heritage.
But readers who best know Solzhenitsyn through his novels will be delighted to discover the astonishing group of sixteen "prose poems." In these works of varying lengths--some as short as an aphorism--Solzhenitsyn distills the joy and bitterness of Russia's fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia in 1918, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and died in Moscow in 2008.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FSG Adult
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374534721
• ISBN 13: 9780374534721
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar