In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Harper Perennial October 2009, 2009

0061479012 / 9780061479014

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Set in a 'sharashka,' a special kind of Soviet prison reserved for the highly educated and talented prisoners lucky enough to be needed by the Soviet government, In the First Cirle is considered Solzhenitsyn's fictional masterpiece. Written in the 1950s just after Solzhenitsyn's eight years in the gulag, his nearly fatal bout with cancer, and his exile to Kazakhstan, it was originally edited by Soviet censors, who cut nine full chapters and many 'objectionable' scenes. Here for the first time is the complete, definitive edition, translated by Solzhenitsyn's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts. Unlike prisoners of other hard labor camps, the inmates are adequately fed and given basic, human priviledges. When a new prisoner arrives from the work camps, he thinks he has been miraculously transported to heaven: dinner includes bread and butter; shaving and reading are permitted. In response to his wonder, a long-time prisoner replies, 'No. you are, just as you were previously, in hell. But you have risen to its best and highest circle-the first circle.' Solzhenitsyn crafts a number of plausible, internally consistent characters-highly educated men discussing ideas with a freedom that was denied not only to other prisoners within the Gulag, but also to most members of Soviet society. The novel's central conflict centers on each character's decision to either aid the repressive Soviet state or refuse and risk transfer to the Siberia, and likely death. 784 pp.…

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Titel
In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition
Autor
ALEKSANDR I. SOLZHENITSYN, HARRY T WILLETTS (TRANS)
Verlag
Harper Perennial October 2009
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Zustand
New
Einband
Paper Back
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0061479012
ISBN-13
9780061479014
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