The Gulag Archipelago Three (1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII)

✍ Scribed by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I

• Book ID: 110486024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"ARCHIPELAGO THREE ... is a book about people. The writer's soliloquy links together the separate tales of individual nobility and depravity, of bravery and ingenuity, and of despair and helplessness in the face of a hostile environment. We meet real men and women. Some of them have been corrupted, but others have never given up the struggle ... [The stories] reach out beyond Soviet reality and into the realm of universal human experience."
Saturday Review
"Solzhenitsyn can and must proclaim that the automatism of oppression can be arrested, because he has seen it arrested or, at least, ground to temporary impotence . . . This is the testimony of the final volume of the trilogy, with its enthralling record of camp uprisings, of escapes, of defiance by individuals and groups of victims. ... In poignant closing chapters, he recalls his own resurrection from the house of the dead, his own reentry, at once agonizing and joyous, into the habitual daylight of more or less normal, licensed existence."
George Steiner, The New Yorker