Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds - Paperback

by Richard Tempest (Author)

A study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's prose that examines his most important characters as well as his treatment of Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian revolution; surprising predilection for literary puzzles and games; erotic themes; and polemical interactions with Russian and Western modernism.

Author Biography

Richard Tempest is an associate professor at the University of Illinois who studies the interactions between Russian and Western culture. His novel Zolotaya kost, about the adventures of a time-traveling American professor, was published in Moscow in 2004. Tempest's current research focuses on charismatic politics in the twenty-first century.