Author: Jonathon Arny MezzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Solzhenitsyn Onstage
Author: Jonathon Arny MezzVictory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent
Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374519242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In March 1953, seventeen years before he received the Nobel Prize, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ended his term in the Ekibastuz labor camp with the play Victory Celebrations and seven of the twelve scenes of Prisoners committed to memory. During his ensuing internal exile, he completed Prisoners and started another play, The Love-Girl and the Innocent. The result is a dramatic trilogy focusing on events of the year 1945: the Russian army’s advance into East Prussia and the “repatriation” of former Russian prisoners of war to the Gulag labor camps. The three plays transmute Solzhenitsyn’s own bitter experience of war and imprisonment. In Victory Celebrations (translated by Helen Rapp and Nancy Thomas), one can recognize the author in Sergei Nerzhin, a captain in a Soviet artillery battalion whose staff improvises a banquet in a captured castle in East Prussia. Celebration turns to conflict when Nerzhin sides with Galina—a Russian emigree whose husband is fighting with the Germans—against Lieutenant Gridnev, an officer in military counter-intelligence who insists Galina is a spy. Prisoners (translated by Helen Rapp and Nancy Thomas, and based in part on Solzhenitsyn’s own initial arrest and captivity) follows a group of political prisoners, including ex-POWs, from their arrival in a Soviet prison on the Prussian border through their perfunctory interrogation, trial, and conviction. Solzhenitsyn’s alter-ego in The Love-Girl and the Innocent (translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg) is Rodion Nemov, a new prisoner in a labor camp whi is unwilling to compromise in order to survive. This final play in the trilogy is, as Martin Esslin wrote of the 1981 Royal Shakespeare Company production, “a classic portrayal of the Gulag.” These plays from the 1950s are among the Nobel laureate’s earlier writings. But in his indignation at injustice and moral bankruptcy, Solzhenitsyn the playwright prefigures Solzhenitsyn the great novelist.
Warning to the West
Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374513341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Speeches given to the Americans and to the British from June 30, 1975 to March 24, 1976.
Solzhenitsyn onstage
Author: Jonathon Arny MezzCliffsNotes on Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Franz G. BlahaPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054418310X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781784878740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYN A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III
The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608033204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Letter to the Soviet Leaders
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡synPublisher:
ISBN: 9780060803391
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Mortal Danger
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublisher: Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Anyone not hopelessly blinded by his own illusions must recognize that the West today finds itself in a crisis, perhaps even in mortal danger .... All of America's mistakes and misconceptions about Russia might have been purely academic in the past, but not in the swift-moving world of today." These two sentences epitomize the argument in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's powerful new book. He analyzes in detail the persistent misconceptions of Russian history by American historians, diplomats, and journalists and their confusion of "the Russian people" with the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn is convinced that these misguided views have led to disastrous mistakes in foreign policy from which Americans must rescue themselves. Few American scholars or statesmen emerge unscathed in Solzhenitsyn's portrait of true Soviet policy and its worldwide intent--a version in striking contrast to the commonly accepted Western analyses. He counsels against any optimism about ďtente or the possibility of accommodation among the Soviet leadership. The viewpoint of The Mortal Danger is bitter and explosive but it originates in a mind which has experienced Soviet Russia from the depths of its harsh interior--and has no illusions about its leadership.-- Back cover.
From Under the Rubble
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn and six dissident colleagues joined in the mid-seventies to write this book, which surely remains the most extraordinary debate of a nation's future published in modern times. Shattering a half-century of silence, From Under the Rubble constitutes a devastating attack on the Soviet regime, a moral indictment of the liberal West, and a Christian manifesto calling for a new society - one whose dominant values would be spiritual rather than economic. Personally edited by the Nobel Prize-winning author, fired by his own substantial contributions, From Under the Rubble articulates Solzhenitsyn's most fervent call to action. His daring, and the remarkable courage of his colleagues, is testament to the seriousness of their demand for a revolution in which one does not kill one's enemies, but in which one puts oneself in danger for the sake of a nation'" -- book cover