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At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul. Unwisely but generously, Innokenty helps a friend in danger of arrest, only to be arrested himself and sent to a special prison. This, the archetype of the Gulag, is described with masterful psychological insight. There are no heroes and hardly any villains; oppressors are no less victims then the oppressed. In the great tradition of the Russian novel, The First Circle is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: First Circle
• Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9781860460906
• ISBN: 1860460909
• ID: 04305452
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 592 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 135 × 44 mm

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