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...prisoners, who are mostly men of science, are all supposed to be working on a project ordered personally by Stalin: a tap-proof phone. But one of their number, Gleb Nerzhin (Gunther Malzacher), keeps finding the time to steal off to a supply closet with one of the warders, Simochka (Elzbieta Czyzewska). "I'd like to leave you with my child," he breathes, lunging for her tunic. "Monday," she shudders, dying to surrender herself but trying also to cope with a pesky short-wave radio that crackles away on a nearby table, summoning her to report. Such sequences evoke...
...Kremlin, as were the author's two previous novels, the work has long been circulating in Russia by hand-copied samizdat, the underground press. The book is said to form the last part of a trilogy with The First Circle and Cancer Ward. In it, Solzhenitsyn takes Gleb Nerzhin, Circle's hero, from the relative comfort of the prison scientific community to the most terrible of Stalin's concentration camps. The novel's virtually untranslatable Russian title, Arkhipelag Gulag, suggests that all of Russia under Stalin was like a vast sea dotted with islands of concentration...
...head with the flowers. After a scuffle, Irina was spirited off to prison in a truck that looked like a bread-delivery wagon. Russian spectators recalled a sim ilar scene in the last chapter of Al exander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, when the hero, Gleb Nerzhin, is carried off to a Stalinist concentration camp in a gay orange and blue van marked "Meat...
...sometimes seems just about up to television-script standards, Cancer Ward is not so fine a book as The First Circle. But it adds measurably to Solzhenitsyn's most remarkable creation: the many-sided, often autobiographical composite character who was first seen as Ivan Denisovich, then as Gleb Nerzhin (in The First Circle) and now as Kostoglotov...
...Gleb Nerzhin, in many ways a stand-in for Solzhenitsyn himself, makes an opposite choice to Rubin's. By refusing to work on a new bugging device, he condemns himself to Siberia. He is the character most conscious of the paradox that pervades the novel: that in Stalin's Russia only those in prison are truly free to be honest with one another. "When you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power ?he's free again...
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