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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 2]
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 27, 2020
Reading lane: Russian Lit Crit
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH CENTURY.” — Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade.
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Literary Inquiry
A grave, searching read that treats history as literature and literature as inquiry.
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- literary investigation, not just record
- serious, layered immersion
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- prestige-critical register
- Soviet-era history with analytical force
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- Authors
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 27, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Russian Lit Crit · Eastern European History
- Reading lane
- Russian Lit Crit
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About This Book
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH CENTURY.” — Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciou...
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