First Circle, The

Contents display no significant wear, appear as carefully read in maroon covered, gold gilt, boards with no visible wear. DJ displays some surface/edge wear, as shown. You can still feel the tug of newness.

Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney… …

Solzhenitsyn lays bare for us all the circles of Stalin's Inferno-a revelation of human nature under stress … A large newspaper clipping of the author laid in. At the height of Stalin' 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.

Newspaper article laid in From the Wichita Beacon, Thursday December 5, 1974. It is of the author in Switzerland.

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