The Oak and the Calf

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It all began in the early 1960s. Solzhenitsyn, released from Gulag ^ and from exile, a comparatively free man, had for years been writing in total secrecy, teaching school and avoiding all literary contacts. Suddenly Khrushchev'denounceci'Stalin, the skies lightened briefly, and the underground wi-iter decided to surface. The result was the publication in Soviet Russia of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
And that was that. Khrushchev fell; the climate changed again; and the KGB raided the writer's apartment and confiscated his archive, incredibly, that last act freed Solzhenitsyn for, action. He took to making speeches', provoking arguments, ' circulating his work through illicit channels''and sending it to the West. ' .
The Oak and the Calf is a personal narrative of Sol/henitsyn's ten-year war to outwit Russia's rulers and get his work published in his own country. The self-portrait of the author — in his loneliness, his courage, his skill in... Tovább

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Jit.cLrt^
It all began in the early 1960s. Solzhenitsyn, released from Gulag ^ and from exile, a comparatively free man, had for years been writing in total secrecy, teaching school and avoiding all literary contacts. Suddenly Khrushchev'denounceci'Stalin, the skies lightened briefly, and the underground wi-iter decided to surface. The result was the publication in Soviet Russia of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
And that was that. Khrushchev fell; the climate changed again; and the KGB raided the writer's apartment and confiscated his archive, incredibly, that last act freed Solzhenitsyn for, action. He took to making speeches', provoking arguments, ' circulating his work through illicit channels''and sending it to the West. ' .
The Oak and the Calf is a personal narrative of Sol/henitsyn's ten-year war to outwit Russia's rulers and get his work published in his own country. The self-portrait of the author — in his loneliness, his courage, his skill in defense and attack, his savage wit — truly reveals to us a hero of our time.
"A story of appalling courage. In The Oak and the Calf So\z:hGn\t-syn has regained the voice which spoke to the readier iniii^ best novels. . . . There is irony, sympathy, a muscular depiction of persons and events, a fine artist taking you through the terrible days of his life." — Nicholas Von hioffman, New York magazine
"An important literary and political event. Readers will be swept away by Solzhenitsyn's power as a narrative writer and, since he is the leading character, by his extraordinary personality." — Stephen F. Cohen, The New York Times Book Review Vissza