Alexander Solzhenitsyn : a century in his life / D.M. Thomas.

"D. M. Thomas paints a deeply affecting portrait of the intricate relationship between Solzhenitsyn's life and his art, always framing this biography in the context of the historical times." "Indeed, Thomas tells not only the harrowing and sorrowful tale of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...

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Main Author: Thomas, D. M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ancestral voices
  • Demons
  • The shot
  • The child on Tolstoy Street
  • Rostov
  • A wolf to a man
  • Crosses
  • Days of wine and roses
  • To be or not to be
  • A room on Chekhov Lane
  • O God of battles
  • Fighting for Lenin
  • Everything is allowed
  • The victory spring
  • Education sentimentale
  • New Jerusalem
  • Vetrov
  • Stalin's seminary
  • Toward the house of the dead
  • The given field
  • Firebird
  • Free to breathe
  • Shrinking the cancer
  • Time to awake
  • In search of time past
  • Death of a poet
  • Ryazansky
  • Launching pads
  • Fame
  • Love, truths, and microfilms
  • Dictating the inferno
  • Into battle
  • Antiworlds
  • Life against death
  • Translations and transitions
  • Doubles
  • Sacrifice
  • Burnt by the sun
  • Encounter battles
  • Casualties
  • Deja vu
  • The west's KGB
  • Friendly fire
  • Arkhipelag Gulag
  • Travels and brawls
  • The dissident
  • A zone of quiet
  • The relentless wheel
  • The Jewish question
  • The broken wall
  • The Seberia station
  • The old believer.