The First Circle
of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
Description
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men. A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 580 pages
- Publisher Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date November 12th 1997
- First Publication 09/28/68
- Language English
- ISBN 9780810115903
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['U.S.S.R.']
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