1st Circle

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.

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.1988
• EAN: 9781860460906
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-090-6
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 42 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature