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Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine them as figures of flesh and blood and thought and feeling. The study discusses Solzhenitsyn's treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games à la Nabokov or even Borges; exploration of erotic themes; and his polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism. Also included is new information about the writer's life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempest's interviews with him in 2003-07.

Russia in literature. --- Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, --- Солженицын, Александр Исаевич, --- Solschenizyn, Alexander, --- Solgenitsin, Aleksandr, --- Soljenitsyne, Alexandre, --- Solshenizyn, Alexander, --- Solyenitsin, Alejandro, --- Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič, --- Solženitsyn, Aleksandr, --- Sorujenitsuin, Arekusandoru, --- So-jen-ni-hsin, --- Solzhenit︠s︡yn, A. --- Solchenichʻin, --- Solzjenitsyn, Alexander, --- Ssolchenitchŭin, --- Solžeņicins, Aleksandrs, --- Sołżenicyn, Aleksander, --- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, --- So-erh-jen-ni-chʻin, Ya, --- Solz'enitsin, Aleḳsander, --- Cōlsen̲iṭcin̲, --- Solženicyn, Alexandr, --- Solženicyn, A. --- Solshenizyn, A. --- Suorennixin, --- סאלזשעניצין, אלעקסאנדער --- סולז׳ניצין, אלכסנדר --- סולז׳ניצין, אלכסנדר, --- סולז׳ניצין, אלקסנדר --- סולז׳ניצין, אלקסנדר, --- Solženicin, Aleksandar, --- Солженицин, Александар, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Soljenițîn, Aleksandr, --- 20th century fiction. --- Cancer Ward. --- In the First Circle. --- Lenin. --- Love the Revolution. --- Nietzsche. --- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. --- Solzhenitsyn. --- Soviet Russia. --- Soviet censors. --- Soviet fiction. --- Soviet history. --- Stalin. --- The Red Wheel. --- Turgenev Never Knew. --- biography. --- gulag. --- literary biography. --- medical novel. --- modernism. --- philosophy. --- realism. --- solzhenitsynovedenie. --- soviet literature. --- twentieth-century fiction. --- war prose.