Stories and Prose Poems Contributor(s): Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (Author), Glenny, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374534721 ISBN-13: 9780374534721 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 891.734 |
LCCN: 74148708 |
Series: FSG Classics |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glenny, Michael: - Michael Glenny, who died in Moscow in August 1990, was Britain's foremost translator of modern Russian literature. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1918. In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962--which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990--Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers' Union. The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of The Gulag Archipelago, brought retaliation from the authorities. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976. In September 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him; Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994. He died in Moscow in 2008. |