Victory Celebrations; Prisoners; The Love-Girl And The Innocent: Three Plays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good, minimal wear, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or labels visible.
This landmark collection brings together three dramatic works by Nobel Prize-winning Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, offering a searing theatrical vision of life under totalitarian oppression. Victory Celebrations captures the moral ambiguities and dark ironies of Soviet officers celebrating wartime triumph, while Prisoners presents a stark portrait of men stripped of freedom and dignity within the Soviet system. The crowning work of the trio, The Love-Girl and the Innocent, chronicles existence inside a Soviet labour camp with unflinching honesty, illuminating the brutal machinery of the Gulag through sharply drawn characters and raw emotional tension. Written with the authority of a man who endured the very world he depicts, Solzhenitsyn's plays stand as indispensable testaments to the human capacity for both cruelty and resilience.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good, minimal wear, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or labels visible.
This landmark collection brings together three dramatic works by Nobel Prize-winning Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, offering a searing theatrical vision of life under totalitarian oppression. Victory Celebrations captures the moral ambiguities and dark ironies of Soviet officers celebrating wartime triumph, while Prisoners presents a stark portrait of men stripped of freedom and dignity within the Soviet system. The crowning work of the trio, The Love-Girl and the Innocent, chronicles existence inside a Soviet labour camp with unflinching honesty, illuminating the brutal machinery of the Gulag through sharply drawn characters and raw emotional tension. Written with the authority of a man who endured the very world he depicts, Solzhenitsyn's plays stand as indispensable testaments to the human capacity for both cruelty and resilience.