Most critics overlook the literary significance of Alexander
Solzhenitsyn's work, focusing instead on biographical, political,
and moral interpretations. This examination of Solzhenitsyn's major
novels--"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch," "The First
Circle," "Cancer Ward," and "August 1914"--emphasizes that his
writings must be understood within the tradition of Russian
literature and the context of Western culture.
James M. Curtis provides a detailed analysis of Tolstoy's
crucial influence on Solzhenitsyn, and he discusses at length
Solzhenitsyn's relationship to Dostoyevsky, Leskov, Chekhov, and
Zamyatin. Curtis also demonstrates that a study of Ernest Hemingway
(whose books have been enormously popular in Russia) and Virginia
Woolf can contribute to our understanding of the Russian novelist.
"Solzhenitsyn's Traditional Imagination" includes a chapter on Dos
Passos and Eisenstein whose work constituted Solzhenitsyn's first
major artistic interest outside Russian literature. The chapter
presents the first comprehensive examination of the importance of
film for Solzhenitsyn and shows how he learned the use of film
technique in literature from Dos Passos and how he adapted it from
Eisenstein's films.
This was the first full-length study to use Solzhenitsyn's
revised editions of "One Day . . .," "The First Circle," and
"Cancer Ward" (all published in 1978). Professor Curtis's careful
use of the best available texts, together with his wide knowledge
of contemporary literary criticism and his insistence upon
Solzhenitsyn's purely literary importance, make this a valuable
book for all students of Solzhenitsyn's fiction.
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