{"product_id":"overwriting-chaos-aleksandr-solzhenitsyns-fictive-worlds-9781644690123","title":"Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eLove the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e to the experimental mega-saga \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we can readily imagine them as figures of flesh and blood and thought and feeling. The study discusses Solzhenitsyn's treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for textual puzzles and games à la Nabokov or even Borges; exploration of erotic themes; and his polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism. Also included is new information about the writer's life and art provided by his family, as well as Tempest's interviews with him in 2003-07.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] massive and provocative book by the Slavist Richard Tempest has appeared, that aims to come to terms with the entirety of Solzhenitsyn’s ‘fictive worlds.’ With clarity and erudition, Tempest attempts to demonstrate how Solzhenitsyn used numerous experimental and modernist techniques to defend and revivify the realist tradition in literature, a tradition where good and evil are real and utterly palpable, where authentic heroes exist, and where an author committed to truth, responsibility, and the integrity of art manfully resists the chaos and nihilism of the age. Tempest… fully appreciates why Solzhenitsyn rejected ‘the howl of existentialism’ and fashionable but morally and culturally corrosive doctrines about ‘the death of the author.’ Solzhenitsyn refused to fiddle while Rome burned.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Daniel J. Mahoney, \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eRichard Tempest’s \u003ci\u003eOverwriting Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e is a systematic up-to-date study of the structures of Solzhenitsyn’s artistic imagination. It places Solzhenitsyn in three widening frames: as a writer dealing with the Gulag and its pre-history, as an integral part of the Russian literary tradition, and, importantly and innovatively, as a major presence in world literature. It combines intratextual insight with discussions of intertextuality, connections with real-life phenomena, and effect on audiences. … The language of the book is rich, vivid, accessible, and methodologically and multilingually precise. … The book should be taken into account in all further research on Solzhenitsyn’s fiction, as a theory of Solzhenitsyn’s poetics, a source of local insights, a pilot, or a springboard.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, \u003ci\u003eRussian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Richard Tempest’s book is a wide-ranging study of Solzhenitsyn’s prose texts in the context of the Russian and Western literary traditions. … On the pages of this book Solzhenitsyn emerges not only as a writer (even though he is primarily considered as such), but also as a reader, traveller, paterfamilias, and a victim of (and victor over) the chaos of history. On top of it all, Tempest shares his own phone interviews with Solzhenitsyn (the full texts are attached in an appendix of the book), as well as encounters and conversations with the writer’s widow, Natalia Solzhenitsyna, which adds to the lively and comprehensive nature of this scholarly treatise.”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e—Anna Arkatova, Hong Kong Baptist University, UIC College, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Slavonic and East European Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Translations and Transliterations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimeline of Solzhenitsyn's Life and Works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: The Writer In Situ\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Quilted Jerkin:Solzhenitsyn's Life and Art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Ice, Squared: \"One Day inthe Life of Ivan Denisovich\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"Turgenev Never Knew\": TheShorter Fictions of the 1950s and 1960s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Meteor Man: \u003ci\u003eLove the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e5. Helots and Heroes: \u003ci\u003eIn the First Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e6. Rebel versus Rabble: \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePartTwo: The Writer Ex Situ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e7. Twilight of All the Russias: \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e8. Return: The ShorterFictions of the 1990s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e9: Modernist?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThree Interviews with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003–7)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359903383895,"sku":"9781644690123","price":96.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644690123.jpg?v=1754126065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/overwriting-chaos-aleksandr-solzhenitsyns-fictive-worlds-9781644690123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}