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Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr - Between Two Millstones Book 1 Sketches Of Exile 1974 1978 - Hardcover

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr - Between Two Millstones Book 1 Sketches Of Exile 1974 1978 - Hardcover

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Description: Russian Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures and perhaps the most important writer of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth the first English translation of his memoir of the West Between Two Millstones Book 1, is being published. Fast - paced absorbing and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975) Between Two Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt West Germany as a result of the publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich Switzerland for a time and was considered the most famous man in the world hounded by journalists and reporters. During this period he found himself untethered and unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings. Between Two Millstones contains vivid descriptions of Solzhenitsyn's journeys to various European countries and North American locales where he and his wife Natalia (Alya ) searched for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating descriptions of one - on - one meetings with prominent individuals detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard University commencement comments on his television appearances accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents who mishandled the Western editions of his books and the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also passages on Solzhenitsyn's family and their property in Cavendish Vermont whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland and where he could finally work undisturbed on his ten - volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution The Red Wheel. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper education for the writer's three sons their desire to return one day to their home in Russia and descriptions of his extraordinary wife editor literary advisor and director of the Russian Social Fund Alya who successfully arranged at great peril to herself and to her family to smuggle Solzhenitsyn's invaluable archive out of the Soviet Union. Between Two Millstones is a literary event of the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of Solzhenitsyn's separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western society.
Title: Between Two Millstones Book 1 Sketches Of Exile 1974 1978
Author(s): Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr
Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
Barcode: 9780268105013
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2018
Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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