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In the First Circle (Russian: В круге первом, romanized: V kruge pervom; also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1968
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps.
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Oct 11, 2022 · Regarded as the author’s most elaborate novel, with a vision, scope, and breadth befitting its topic, The First Circle addresses the recurrent theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's oeuvre, namely the “internal freedom” which even the most totalitarian of political and cultural systems is unable to deny the individual.
Set in a sharashka, a prison for scientists and technologists, the novel explores the clash of ideas and beliefs in the Soviet system. The main character, Gleb Nerzhin, is a former Marxist who seeks his own path to humanity and justice amid the moral dilemmas and challenges of the Gulag.
Oct 13, 2009 · In this many-voiced, flashback-rich, philosophical, suspenseful, ironic, and wrenching tale, Solzhenitsyn interleaves the stories of a grand matrix of compelling characters (women are accorded particular compassion) trapped in a maze of toxic lies, torturous absurdities, and stark brutality.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- $21.99
- Harper Perennial
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has, like the...
Nov 30, 2011 · At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that...
