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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795386603321

Autore

Tempest Richard

Titolo

Overwriting Chaos : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds / / Richard Tempest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-013-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (748 pages)

Collana

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Disciplina

891.734

Soggetti

Russia in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Preface -- Timeline of Solzhenitsyn's Life and Works -- Part One. THE WRITER IN SITU -- 1. The Quilted Jerkin: Solzhenitsyn's Life and Art -- 2. Ice, Squared: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" -- 3. "Turgenev Never Knew": The Shorter Fictions of the 1950's and 1960's -- 4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution -- 5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle -- 6. Rebel versus Rabble: Cancer Ward -- Part Two. THE WRITER EX SITU -- 7. Twilight of All the Russias: The Red Wheel -- 8. Return: The Shorter Fictions of the 1990's -- 9. Modernist? -- Appendix. Three Interviews with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003-7) -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 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 Solzhenitsyn's treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games à 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 writer's life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempest's interviews with him in



2003-07.