Richard Tempest

Overwriting Chaos

Richard Tempest

The first study in English of Solzhenitsyn’s entire corpus of prose Addressed to an academic audience as well as the general reader Solzhenitsyn’s portraits of Lenin and Stalin as twin monsters of an utterly modern kind The Russian revolution as a catastrophic turning point in world history that was both terrifying and farcical Solzhenitsyn’s erotic codes His polemical relationship with Western culture, from Plato and Nietzsche to modernism and rock music