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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Editor)Series:Center for Ethics and Culture SolzhenitsynPublish date:04/01/25Pages:228
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268208585ISBN-10:268208581UPC:9780268208585Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Russia, WorldBook Topic:Soviet Era, Russian & SovietSize:8.72 x 5.87 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCAPZ2VCQG

This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.

Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected in this volume straddle this period of exile, contemplating the materialism prevalent worldwide--forcibly imposed in the socialist East, freely chosen in the capitalist West--and searching for humanity's possible paths forward. In beautiful yet haunting and prophetic prose, Solzhenitsyn explores the mysterious purpose of art, the two-edged nature of limitless freedom, the decline of faith in favor of legalistic secularism, and--perhaps most centrally--the power of literature, art, and culture to elevate the human spirit.

These annotated speeches, including his timeless "Nobel Lecture" and "Harvard Address," have been rendered in English by skilled translators, including Solzhenitsyn's sons. The volume includes an introduction to the speeches, brief background information about each speech, and a timeline of the key dates in Solzhenitsyn's life.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268208585ISBN-10:268208581UPC:9780268208585Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Russia, WorldBook Topic:Soviet Era, Russian & SovietSize:8.72 x 5.87 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCAPZ2VCQG

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel Prize laureate in literature, was a Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953. His story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) made him famous, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) further unmasked Communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including In the First Circle, Cancer Ward, The Red Wheel epic, The Oak and the Calf, and the Between Two Millstones memoirs.

Ignat Solzhenitsyn is a pianist and conductor based in New York City. The middle son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, he is translator and editor of several of his father's works in English.


Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

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