Overwriting Chaos : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds / Richard Tempest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tempest, Richard, Author.

Series:

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia in literature.

Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008--Criticism and interpretation.

Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (748 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine them as figures of flesh and blood and thought and feeling. The study discusses Solzhenitsyn's treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games à la Nabokov or even Borges; exploration of erotic themes; and his polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism. Also included is new information about the writer's life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempest's interviews with him in 2003-07.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translations and Transliterations

Preface

Timeline of Solzhenitsyn's Life and Works

Part One. THE WRITER IN SITU

1. The Quilted Jerkin: Solzhenitsyn's Life and Art

2. Ice, Squared: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

3. "Turgenev Never Knew": The Shorter Fictions of the 1950's and 1960's

4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution

5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle

6. Rebel versus Rabble: Cancer Ward

Part Two. THE WRITER EX SITU

7. Twilight of All the Russias: The Red Wheel

8. Return: The Shorter Fictions of the 1990's

9. Modernist?

Appendix. Three Interviews with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003-7)

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-64469-013-6

OCLC:

1117310970