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AUGUST 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). Since this novel first appeared in English 17 years ago, the 1970 Nobel laureate has added some 300 pages to his fictional but heavily researched saga of Russia's catastrophic involvement in World...
AUGUST 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English 17 years ago. Since then the 1970 Nobel laureate has added some 300 pages to his fictional but heavily researched saga of Russia's catastrophic involvement in World...
...complete cycle of novels is available in English. But an enormous preview of what lies in store is being published this week as August 1914 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 854 pages; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English in 1972; after his banishment from the U.S.S.R., Solzhenitsyn was free to explore new troves of archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World...
...prospect of the unquestionably difficult and demanding August 1914. It offers an encompassing narrative, told from dozens of different perspectives, of Russian life circa 1914 and of the nation's stark unpreparedness for the military offensive launched against Germany in August of that year. With this ! story Solzhenitsyn mixes snippets from contemporary newspapers, a succession of official documents and a series of "Screens," scenes described as if they were intended for a film script. The overall effect of this avalanche of information is daunting indeed...
With the updating and new English translation of his novel August 1914, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn offers the first installment of a vast epic cycle about the events that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. He also breaks a long silence to give his first major interview since 1979. Solzhenitsyn speaks candidly about his work, his harrowing past, his life in the West and the evil nature of Lenin...