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Bezig met laden... In de eerste cirkel (1968)door Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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This is a long book of 700 pages that covers just a few days. Solzhenitsyn's genius is to make it both grim and sad and also see the humour in the everyday lives of prisoners and in the nonsense of the Soviet system. Each character is rounded and has a back story, which is one reason why the novel is so long despite only covering a few days. Solzhenitsyn shows his humanity time and again, as he draws the characters and the reader understands them. His observation is also outstanding and the detail of everything from the feel of a blanket, the action of chopping of wood and the warmth of friendship brings alive the prisoners and members of staff in the special prison. ( ) Reason read: 2023 Quarterly 1001 read. This book is a must read and plainly explains why progressive ideology does not work. Semi biographical. From wikipedia; The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of Gulag inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War. Unlike inhabitants of other Gulag labor camps, the sharashka zeks were adequately fed and enjoyed good working conditions; however, if they found disfavor with the authorities, they could be instantly shipped to Siberia. The title is an allusion to Dante's first circle, or limbo of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other virtuous pagans, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell. The novel is about friendship, complicity and conscience. Themes include stoic integrity and humanism. The author shares how hard it is to maintain dignity while in a system designed to rob you of dignity. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Indirectly based on Solzhenitsyn's own experiences of working as a mathematician in a prison research institute, The First Circle is set amongst a group of scientists caught up in the system of prison camps. Forced to work for the secret police, they debate the morality of what they doing but are cruelly aware that failure to co-operate would secure them a worse fate. The title is a reference to the first, and least unpleasant, circle of Hell in Dante's inferno but Solzhenitsyn's characters know that the lower circles of hell are there in the shape of the forced labour camps and that these await them if they make a false step. This searing insight into the dark side of Soviet life in the final years of Stalin's regime is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)891.7344Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Late 20th century 1917–1991LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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