Prussian Nights: A Poem - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374513910 ISBN 13: 9780374513917

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977

Synopsis

"The pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers thought." - Clive James, New Statesman

About this title

About the Author:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was serving the Soviet Army in 1945 when he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp, later cut short by Khrushchev's reforms. Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Writers' Union in 1969. The Western publication of his other novels, particularly The Gulag Archipelago, brought retaliation: in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. In 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him, and Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Russian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0374513910
• ISBN 13: 9780374513917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128