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Subject: [BASEES-MEMBERS] Solzhenitsyn's final work: launch at Pushkin House
Solzhenitsyn's final work of fiction to be launched at Pushkin House
Stephan Solzhenitsyn will discuss his father's life and work at an event
to celebrate the launch of 'Apricot Jam and Other Stories'
7-8pm, 24th October 2011
Pushkin House
5a Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A
Tickets are free but limited, and available from:
www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events<http://www.pushkinhouse.org/events>.
Copies of 'Apricot Jam and Other Stories' will be on sale.
'In terms of the effect he has had on history, Solzhenitsyn is the
dominant writer of [the twentieth] century' - David Remnick, New Yorker
Stephan Solzhenitsyn will discuss his father's work and legacy with Dr
Rachel Polonsky at Bloomsbury's Pushkin House, London's centre for
Russian culture. Dr Polonsky is a teaching associate at Cambridge
University's Department of Slavonic Studies, specialising in the place
of Russian literature in cultural, intellectual, and political history.
Written in the years between Solzhenitsyn's return to Russia from exile
in 1994 and his death in 2008, Apricot Jam and Other Stories confirm
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's position as the most eloquent and acclaimed
opponent of government oppression in the twentieth century and as a true
literary giant. With an unforgettable cast of military commanders,
imprisoned activists and displaced families, these stories play
out the moral dilemmas and ideological conflicts that defined Russia in
the twentieth century.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1970, and his work continues to receive international acclaim. Through
his writings, particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich, he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the
Soviet Union's forced labour camp system. He was
expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, returned to Russia in 1994 and
died on 2 August 2008. The stories have been translated by Kenneth
Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn.
For more information please contact Anna Frame, Canongate Publicist, on
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Pushkin House on 0207 269 9770.
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Dr Sarah J. Young
Lecturer in Russian
SSEES, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
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