Prussian Nights
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Written in secret while its author served on the front lines of the Second World War, Prussian Nights is a haunting narrative poem that bears unflinching witness to the Soviet Army's brutal sweep through East Prussia in 1945 — a descent into chaos, violence, and moral ruin that Solzhenitsyn himself observed firsthand. Translated with muscular precision by the poet and historian Robert Conquest, this searing work chronicles the pillaging and destruction carried out by his own comrades, casting a cold and unsparing eye on the machinery of war as experienced from within its ranks. Solzhenitsyn's verse is raw and rhythmically driven, pulsing with the anguish of a soldier-intellectual who cannot reconcile duty with atrocity — a tension that would define his entire literary career. As one of the few works he composed during active service, Prussian Nights occupies a singular place in his canon, offering a moral counterpoint to the official triumphalism of Soviet wartime culture. For readers who know Solzhenitsyn through The Gulag Archipelago or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this poem reveals the moment his conscience first broke against the edifice of the Soviet state — and never recovered.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Written in secret while its author served on the front lines of the Second World War, Prussian Nights is a haunting narrative poem that bears unflinching witness to the Soviet Army's brutal sweep through East Prussia in 1945 — a descent into chaos, violence, and moral ruin that Solzhenitsyn himself observed firsthand. Translated with muscular precision by the poet and historian Robert Conquest, this searing work chronicles the pillaging and destruction carried out by his own comrades, casting a cold and unsparing eye on the machinery of war as experienced from within its ranks. Solzhenitsyn's verse is raw and rhythmically driven, pulsing with the anguish of a soldier-intellectual who cannot reconcile duty with atrocity — a tension that would define his entire literary career. As one of the few works he composed during active service, Prussian Nights occupies a singular place in his canon, offering a moral counterpoint to the official triumphalism of Soviet wartime culture. For readers who know Solzhenitsyn through The Gulag Archipelago or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this poem reveals the moment his conscience first broke against the edifice of the Soviet state — and never recovered.