The First Circle (9781860460906)
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
- Paperback | 592 pages
- 135 x 216 x 42mm | 620g
- 04 Aug 1988
- Vintage Publishing
- The Harvill Press
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0
- 1860460909
- 9781860460906
- 457,987
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