Overwriting chaos Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fictive worlds / Richard Tempest.
| Author/creator | Tempest, Richard, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fictive worlds |
| Series | Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
| Contents | 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 1950s and 1960s -- 4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution -- 5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle -- 6. Rebel versus Rabble ; Part two. The Writer Ex Situ. 7. Twilight of All the Russias: The Red Wheel -- 8. Return: The Shorter Fictions of the 1990s -- 9. Modernist? ; Appendix. Three Interviews with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003-7). |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Tempest, Richard, 1956- Overwriting chaos Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019. 9781644690123 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019037154 |
| ISBN | 9781644690130 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |