This volume collects two quietly powerful short novels.
In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.
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2 extremely powerful parables of the human spirit,
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These two great stories are written in that harsh realistic style so charateristic of Solzhenitsyn's works. Both stories are important on two fronts: They are both allow for primary-source insight into what many Westerners have a skewed perception of (the poverty and oppression in Stalanist Russia), and secondly, both stories present severe criticsm of human nature in such grand metaphoric form as to allow them to penetrate the reader's own soul. The phrase "thought provoking," does these stories no justice, the parables are better described as painfully applicable.
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Two powerful short stories...One about war injustice and unfair system that treats people based on suspicion that has no real roots...The red army lieutenant, Zotov,sends a straggler to miserable fate just because the guy didn't know what the Stalingrad previous name was?...The one answer he received upon inquiring of the guy's fate was"don't worry we'll take care of your Tveritinov,We never make mistakes"...
the second novella is the tale of Matryona;an old poor peasant widow,narrated by her roomate; she helps everybody for free and dies in misery because of the greed of her relatives who complained after her death that "she never accumulated property against the time of her death"... those were written beautifully similar to his magnificent novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"..
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Aunt Frosia, Vasili Vasilitch, Comrade Lieutenant, Matryona Vasilyevna, Igor Dementevich, Red Army, Torf Produkt, Lieutenant Zotov, Peter's Day, Eternal Memory, Antonia Ivanova New!
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- Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Turgenev in Front Matter
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- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Three) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter
- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Two) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter
- Dead Souls (Norton Library) by Nikolai Gogol in Back Matter
- The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter
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