Alexandr Szolzsenyicin

Dédié a ceux a qui la vie a manqué pour raconter ces choses. Et qu'ils me pardonnent de n'avoir pas tout vu, de n'avoir pas tout retenu, de n'avoir pas tout deviné. En l'an 1949, nous tombâmes, quelques amis et moi, sur une note remarquable publiée dans la revue de l'Académie des...

1 A TKO STE VI? Izrezbarene ikazaljke zaiuistaivile su se na pola pet. U uminuceim isvjetlu !prosinaökog dama broncani brojcanik sata na policd iz^edao je em, Dvostrulka stalMa viisoikog prozora gledala su na prometnu uM-ou i na paizibuce koji su isipod nogu pijesalka lopataima oiísitili...

INTRODUCTION i ! "None of us denies his talent." I i —^Konstantin Fedin, as chairman of a meeting of the Ij Secretariat of the Soviet Union of Writers, called ^ to discuss the "Solzhenitsyn affair" on September li 22nd, 1967. j On October 8, 1970, the Swedish Academy of ¦ Letters...

Soviel ich weiß - möglicherweise irre ich mich - ist es im Westen üblich, daß jede Arbeit bezahlt wird, und kaum jemand arbeitet ohne Bezahlung. Bei uns hingegen beruht der ganze Samisdat auf nichts anderem als auf unbezahlter Arbeit.^ Menschen geben ihre Arbeitskraft, ihre Freizeit, sitzen...

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE The word "sharashka" as it occurs in this story derives from a Soviet slang expression meaning "a sinister enterprise based on bluff or deceit." By 1949, the time of the novel, it meant, particularly, a special scientific or technical institute staffed with prisoners—or, in...

As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded xX by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staflF quarters. The intermittent sound barely penetrated the window-panes on which the frost lay two fingers thick, and they ended almost as soon as they'd begun. It...