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Description of  Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century)

1644690128 pdf Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine them as figures of flesh and blood and thought and feeling. The study discusses Solzhenitsyns treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian Revolution surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games la Nabokov or even Borges exploration of erotic themes and his polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism. Also included is new information about the writers life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempests interviews with him in 2003-7.