Aleksandr Solženicyn è celebrato per la sua inflessibile critica al sistema repressivo sovietico e la sua coraggiosa testimonianza della sofferenza nei Gulag. Le sue opere, spesso infuse di elementi autobiografici, approfondiscono temi come la giustizia, la verità e la lotta morale dell'individuo contro il totalitarismo. Lo stile letterario di Solženicyn è caratterizzato dalla sua cruda onestà e dalla sua profonda capacità di ritrarre lo spirito umano sotto estrema coercizione. La sua scrittura rappresenta un potente monito storico e una voce di avvertimento per il futuro.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history-never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
Содерж.: Один день Ивана Денисовича ; Матренин двор ; Правая кисть ; Случай на станции Кочетовка ; Для пользы дела ; Захар-Калита ; Как жаль ; Пасхальный крестный ход ; Крохотки ; Двучастные рассказы
Содерж.: Адлиг Швенкиттен : односуточная повесть ; Двучастные рассказы, 1993-1998: Эго ; На краях ; Молодняк ; Настенька ; Абрикосовое варенье ; Все равно ; На изломах ; Желябугские выселки ; Крохотки, 1996-1999
