Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life

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Picador, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 583 pages
One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself.
A rare combination of exhaustive research and novelistic style, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is the type of literary biography that appears rarely in a generation. D. M. Thomas depicts Solzhenitsyn's struggles, which led to years of imprisonment and subsequent exile, and paints a deeply affecting portrait of the intricate relationship between Solzhenitsyn's life and his art, always framing this masterpiece in the context of the historical times.

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About the author (1998)

Writer and translator D. M. Thomas was born in Cornwall, England on January 27, 1935. He graduated with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford and became a teacher. In 1979, he became a full-time author and his best-known work is The White Hotel. His works also include memoirs, poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova.

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