I am trying to recontextualize him in that sense.”Īlign image left align image center align image right “He has been studied and written about as a public figure a political dissident a commentator on Soviet, Russian and Western public issues and as a powerful voice for the people – prisoners, the persecuted, Russian patriots but less so as an author of stories and novels and prose poems. The way he confronted the Soviet government really changed minds, both inside the USSR and outside,” Tempest said. “Solzhenitsyn was one of the emblematic figures of the late Cold War period. It is the first study in English of Solzhenitsyn’s entire corpus of prose. “ Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Fictive Worlds,” by Richard Tempest, a Slavic languages and literatures professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is both an analysis of Solzhenitsyn’s fictional works and an intellectual and artistic biography. A new book about Russian novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn considers him not just as a critic of the Soviet regime, but as a literary artist whose writing was experimental, imaginative and humorous.
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