Communist Totalitarianism in Solzhenitsyn’s Fiction
Communist Totalitarianism in Solzhenitsyn’s Fiction
Author(s): Ileana Alexandra OrlichSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Soviet Camps; Gulag; Stalin; Zek; Sharashka; Polyphonic Narrative; Dante.
Summary/Abstract: The three works discussed in this essay address the evils of communism inherent in Stalinist excesses. In examining life in the Soviet camps and prisons and exposing the ideological lies at the heart of communist totalitarianism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn never repudiates the infernal world in which he finds himself; instead, he interrogates the moral waste land of Soviet Russia through his independent thinking and responsible spirit.
Journal: Caietele Echinox
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 243-249
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
