THE SOUL AND BARBED WIRE
by Ericson, Edward E., JR.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-07-15
Publisher(s): Isi Books
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Summary
The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Alexis Klimoff begin with a detailed biographical survey that traces Solzhenitsyn's evolution from an ardent Communist and loyal Soviet front-line officer into a devastating critic of all ideological distortions of authentic human values and a historian of the multifaceted events that led to the tragedy set loose by the Russian Revolution.
Author Biography
Edward E. Ericson, Jr is professor emeritus of English at Calvin College, where he taught for twenty-six years. He is the author of two books on Solzhenitsyn, and coeditor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947 –2005, published by ISI Books in 2006.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Life | p. 1 |
| Works | p. 67 |
| Early Works | p. 69 |
| Miniatures | p. 80 |
| The First Circle | p. 82 |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | p. 92 |
| Matryona's Home | p. 95 |
| Incident at Krechetovka Station | p. 98 |
| What a Pity | p. 100 |
| Cancer Ward | p. 102 |
| The Gulag Archipelago | p. 106 |
| Nobel Lecture | p. 114 |
| Lenin in Zurich | p. 118 |
| From under the Rubble | p. 120 |
| Letter to the Soviet Leaders | p. 122 |
| Harvard Address | p. 125 |
| The Oak and the Calf | p. 127 |
| The Mortal Danger | p. 131 |
| Templeton Lecture | p. 133 |
| Rebuilding Russia | p. 135 |
| Playing upon the Strings of Emptiness | p. 137 |
| We have ceased to see the Purpose | p. 139 |
| "The Russian Question" at the End of the Twentieth Century | p. 141 |
| The Little Grain | p. 143 |
| Invisible Allies | p. 147 |
| The Red Wheel | p. 150 |
| Two Hundred Years Together | p. 163 |
| Russia in Collapse | p. 166 |
| Short Stories of the 1990s | p. 168 |
| Literary Collection | p. 172 |
| Beliefs | p. 177 |
| Reception | p. 207 |
| Notes | p. 241 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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