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Most critics overlook the literary significance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work, focusing instead on biographical, political, and moral interpretations. This examination of Solzhenitsyn's major novels -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, The First Circle, Cancer Ward, and August 1914 -- emphasizes that his writings must be understood within the tradition of Russian literature and the context of Western culture. James M. Curtis provides a detailed...

Maps on lining papers. A biography of the Russian novelist who wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World challenges the prevailing Western view of Solzhenitsyn. Ericson explains Solzhenitsyn's views on the West, democracy, and nationalism, topics about which there has been great confusion, and analyzes thoroughly his most politically programmatic essays, "Letter to the Soviet Leaders" and "Rebuilding Russia." He concludes by outlining how Solzhenitsyn has influenced the modern world and has helped point the way toward...