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Solzhenitsyn: A Pictorial Autobiography
Hardcover
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88 pages
Published
December 1st 1974
by Farrar Straus Giroux
(first published 1974)
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A quiet book that collects Solzhenitsyn's writings (both personal and from his fiction) to give a brief portrait of his life. The photos are rare (some from his days in the gulag, one taken with a handmade camera) and are arranged chronologically. We can trace the lines on his face as he ages. His eyes have a stolid dignity that is fascinating. I say this is a quiet book because it really needs to be read slowly and in the solitude of a quiet place. It was interesting to read the pieces of his f
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works.
Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from ...more
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