Candle In The Wind
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Written during the Soviet era and smuggled to the West, Candle in the Wind stands as one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most intimate dramatic works — a play that burns quietly with moral urgency against the backdrop of a world seduced by technological progress. The story centres on Alex, a scientist who returns to his homeland only to find his former love, Alda, subjected to the dehumanising experiments of a neuroscience programme promising emotional peace through chemical intervention. Solzhenitsyn presents this collision between human dignity and scientific utopia as a parable of the Soviet condition: a civilisation that traded the soul for the state. Translated by Keith Armes in association with Arthur Hudgins, this edition brings Solzhenitsyn's lyrical yet unflinching voice into sharp English relief. The play argues, with characteristic Solzhenitsyn conviction, that the suppression of suffering is indistinguishable from the suppression of humanity itself — that a candle guttering in the wind is still, defiantly, alight. For readers drawn to the great moral questions of the twentieth century, this work remains as quietly devastating as ever.
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Format: Hardback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Written during the Soviet era and smuggled to the West, Candle in the Wind stands as one of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most intimate dramatic works — a play that burns quietly with moral urgency against the backdrop of a world seduced by technological progress. The story centres on Alex, a scientist who returns to his homeland only to find his former love, Alda, subjected to the dehumanising experiments of a neuroscience programme promising emotional peace through chemical intervention. Solzhenitsyn presents this collision between human dignity and scientific utopia as a parable of the Soviet condition: a civilisation that traded the soul for the state. Translated by Keith Armes in association with Arthur Hudgins, this edition brings Solzhenitsyn's lyrical yet unflinching voice into sharp English relief. The play argues, with characteristic Solzhenitsyn conviction, that the suppression of suffering is indistinguishable from the suppression of humanity itself — that a candle guttering in the wind is still, defiantly, alight. For readers drawn to the great moral questions of the twentieth century, this work remains as quietly devastating as ever.