SOLZENICYN Alexander
THE FIRST COURSE
vol. 1-2 (complete)
Paris 1970, Instytut Literacki; pp. 399 [1], 302; format 13.5x21cm
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"Another great novel by the Nobel laureate in literature, next to The Ward of the Sick with Cancer. Although its title alludes to Dante's Divine Comedy, Solzhenitsyn describes his contemporaries and the reality of the "charashka" - prison-institute for research. The prisoners employed there, many of them eminent scientists, work on the decryption of the human voice and eavesdropping techniques. This closed environment is a picture of Soviet society in miniature, and the psychological portraits of the characters - including Stalin himself - who occupy places at the two extremes of the repressive system, make up the whole range of human types and attitudes. This is a novel of exceptional qualities, poignant and filling with horror." REBIS Publishing House.
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