| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 716 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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Cultural revolutions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 ; 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). |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Russia -- In literature.
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Russia. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Interviews.
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| Added Title |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fictive worlds |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Tempest, Richard, 1956- Overwriting chaos. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019 9781644690123 (DLC) 2019037153 |
| ISBN |
9781644690130 (adobe electronic book) |
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1644690136 (adobe electronic book) |
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9781644692943 (electronic book) |
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1644692945 (electronic book) |
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9781644690123 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781644690130. |
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