Prisoners: A tragedy

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hardcover. First UK printing. Jacket is a little foxed on rear inner flap, and slightly faded on spine - otherwise a very good copy with clean, sound interior. TS

Genres: Plays, Russia

148 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1983

About the author

also known as
Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)

Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.

This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.

Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan...

Reviews

[Steven R. Kraaijeveld · Rating 4 out of 5]

"We clutch at life with convulsive intensity—that's how we get caught. We want to go on living at any, any price. We accept all the degrading conditions, and this way we save—not ourselves—we save the persecutor. But he who doesn't value his life is unconquerable, untouchable. There are such people! And if you become one of them, then it's not you but your persecutor who'll tremble!"