ISBN: 9780061253805
Editorial: Harper
Año de edición: 2007
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 528
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas “Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” -- Time magazine“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” -- George F. Kennan“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” -- David Remnick, The New Yorker“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerDrawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the “welcome” that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword Contraportada Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author Biografía del autor After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont. In 1994 he returned to Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Editorial: Harper
- N° Paginas: 528
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
