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The book as a squarish chunk of hot smoking conscience
In autumn of 2017, The New Criterion published an article about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “cathedrals“, his Gulag Archipelago and a series of epic ‘novels’ known as the Red Wheel series. I delayed posting this until I was finished with the trilogy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, Russian Literature
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
Archipeleg GULag / The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary InvestigationVolume I (of III)© 1973, 1974 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn660 pages Such was my desire to read The Gulag Archipelago that when I found it on the shelf and observed that it … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Classics and Literary, Classics Club Challenge, Gulag Archipelago, Man vs State, prisons, Russia, survey
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