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At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
Unwisely but generously, Innokenty helps a friend in danger of arrest, only to be arrested himself and sent to a special prison. This, the archetype of the Gulag, is described with masterful psychological insight. There are no heroes and hardly any villains; oppressors are no less victims then the oppressed.
In the great tradition of the Russian novel, The First Circle is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period.
Condition - this is a Fontana Pb reprint edition, curve to spine, light edgewear to external covers, age tanning and spotting/browning to page block internally, previous owners name to the title page ( both handwritten and stamped , plus a pink marker - overkill surely) . Despite Solzenitsyn winning the Nobel, his titles are not regularly in print in English language editions.
