Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn is a rare example in contemporary literature of a writer-tribune, a writer-moralist. His biography encompassed war and camps, the Nobel Prize and persecution, culminating in his exile from the USSR. The 20 years spent in emigration did... not sever Solzhenitsyn's connection with his homeland - immediately after his triumphant return to Moscow, he engaged in public life, pondering intensely on how "to arrange Russia." Not softening his expressions, nor trying to please those in power, he repeatedly drew fire from critics on both the right and the left, yet he maintained a high moral authority and the title of a living classic of modern Russian literature. His first complete biography was written by the renowned literary historian L. I. Saraskina, based on unique archival documents, conversations with Solzhenitsyn himself, and members of his family.