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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005 Hardcover – November 1, 2006

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  • Hardcover: 650 pages
  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 1 edition (November 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933859008
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933859002
  • Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMajor Step Forward for English Readers
By Billyjack D'Urberville on December 23, 2006
Format: Hardcover
This set is a major step forward to the presentation and understanding of Solzhenitsyn to English speaking readers. It is a process that will still take years, but I suspect this volume will be pivotal.

In the early days, the writer's books were rushed into print with so-so or even poor translations because of their timelineness and importance. His exile to USA happened at the crest of his frame, but the political establishment was post-Watergate mediocority and the literary establishment not up to speed to help; we were not ready for him. Any great writer and/or polemicist is going to be controversial to somebody. And Solzhenitsyn's voice is a shrewd construct made of turning Soviet literary realism against itself, juiced up with a vocabulary simultaneously streetwise, grand, goading. Understand Russian or not, you really need hear him speak sometime. There is really no equivalent figure in English, modern or ancient, here or in Britain. You would have to conceive of Upton Sinclair as an experimental literary giant plus a man of subtle moral dimensions, then put him in the body of the old prize fighter John L. Sullivan, and finally put him on a soapbox with all the scary zeal of an early century 20 labor rabble rouser. The closest personal affinity Solzhenitsyn found in his own fiction (minus core belief, of course) was Lenin. Solzhenitsyn is the anti-Lenin. And even more. To our soundbite culture, he just looks crazy. We prefer our Rooskies to be chummy vodka drinkers with a wink in their eye, or comradely cosmonauts. In our own history we only produced such figures just before and during the civil war era.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGREATEST LIVING WRITER
By David F. Sczepanski on November 14, 2006
Format: Hardcover
In anticipation of adding this new volume to my library I heartily give it five stars, for two important reasons: 1) Solzhenitsyn -- I have read most of what appears in this book, and look forward to the new material; 2) Professor Ericson's capable handling of Solzhenitsyn's voluminous writings. (Among other things, he abridged the three volumes of "Gulag Archipelago".) In his 1980 book, "Solzhenitsyn: The Moral Vision" I was introduced to this great writer. It launched me into reading almost all of Solzhenitsyn's works, for me a profoundly moving experience.

How sadly prophetic of the direction our nation has taken was the chilly reception of Solzhenitsyn's address at Harvard in 1978 (and Gerald Ford's treatment of the dissident). I recall my consternation some years ago when a neighbor told me he was in that graduating class, but couldn't remember much of what Solzhenitsyn said.

I say "greatest living writer" not because he is clever or brilliant, but because, as Professor Ericson showed, he brought to bear upon the world great moral vision. We have many very clever minds in our time, but far fewer with keen moral vision.

A correction to the above book description -- he landed in the Gulag not because of his "unyielding and courageous dissidence" but because of a thinly-veiled disparaging remark about Stalin in a letter to a fellow officer on the Russian-German front during the war. Solzhenitsyn was an artillery officer. He believed Stalin was betraying Leninist ideals. The intercepted letter led to his arrest and a sentence in the Gulag. During his eight years in the brutal Soviet penal camps, Solzhenitsyn turned back to the God of his youth and emerged into the light of the last half of the Twentieth Century as a great prophetic voice.

I wonder how many students today even know his name?
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5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb collection of a Moral and Literary Giant.20 Stars**************************
By A. Hogan VINE VOICE on December 18, 2006
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is an intersting figure,a moral giant ,Shakespearean in his essence, equalled only by John PaulII and Nelson mandela among recent historical personage. Shamefully,disgustingly ignored by the left, exploited,shamelessly co-opted by the right,cafeteria style[much like JPII} he stradles above both camps,like Gulliver among Lilliputians. This collection, beautifully done considers the whole of the Canon,from stories written in the 1930's ending with his recent prose-poems[which are quite lovely and distinctive} A Large portion of the book are excerpts from THE RED WHEEL, his Magnum Opus,of which only the first two volumes[called Knots by the author] have been translated into English. The Red Wheel has been chewed and spit out by critics,though I cannot see why. It is in the great Russian literay tradition, long and varied and narrative and lovely. The overwhelming Chapter from the Gulag ArchipelagoII,THE ASCENT, is here, as are his major novels, speeches{the Nobel, Harvard and templeton adresses are here}.An essential volume to understand no just the 20th century, but the hole which exists in our post-postmodern world.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Cost of Smithing Words
By TorridlyBoredShopper TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 26, 2007
Format: Hardcover
The first time I read anything by Solzhenitsyn was when I was given the opportunity to see his Nobel Speech from 1970 and learn of some of the horrors he had seen just because he was a writer. That day he said many things, too, and of all the words he threw into the audience one thing stuck with me. This isn't to say that everything he said didn't hit like a hammer because it did, but one statement, one paragraph, truly redefined the edges of suffering and made me think about what the word writer really meant. While remarking on the Gulags he made the comment:
"A whole national literature remained there, cast into oblivion not only without a grave, but without even underclothes, naked, with a number tagged on to its toe. Russian literature did not cease for a moment, but from the outside it appeared a wasteland! Where a peaceful forest could have grown, there remained, after all the felling, two or three trees overlooked by chance."
This took me by surprise and, reading more and more of his work, I came to understand how close he tiptoed the edge of a potent razor.

In this compendium of work compiled by Erikson and Mahoney, even the most casual of readers will be given a glimpse into a world that they might not even know existed. It mixes the casual with the terrible, the happy with the sad, creating a loom upon which one can truly look into the heart of the writer and see that he is crafting truths. The Gulag Archipelago was perhaps the most amazing of the pieces here, although the Red Wheel and other mentioned pieces are also well worth mentioning.Read more ›
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