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In the First Circle (Russian: В круге первом, romanized: V kruge pervom; also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009.
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps.
Oct 13, 2009 · In this many-voiced, flashback-rich, philosophical, suspenseful, ironic, and wrenching tale, Solzhenitsyn interleaves the stories of a grand matrix of compelling characters (women are accorded particular compassion) trapped in a maze of toxic lies, torturous absurdities, and stark brutality.
Oct 11, 2022 · The title of this text by the Nobel Prize–winning Solzhenitsyn (1918– 2008) is drawn from Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, the first circle of the Inferno, or hell. Solzhenitsyn’s hell in his fictional universe is represented by a Soviet forcedlabor camp system.
Solzhenitsyn’s autobiographical and much-admired In the First Circle is his first full-length novel. For the first 40 years, since its publication in English from its publication in 1968 as The First Circle, the novel was only available in a version that Solzhenitsyn had “lightened” in the vain hope that it would pass muster with the ...
In the First Circle was originally published as The First Circle in 1968, with nine chapters expurgated from the original manuscript; they are restored here. It's an epic, polyphonic story of life in the Soviet Union which unfolds across a few days in December 1949.
The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds.
- Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
