The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union.

SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr I; Translated by Harry Willetts.

$40.00

Item Number: 145197

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.

First edition of the memoir of one of the great novelists of our time. Octavo, original orange cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Irving Bogen. Author photograph by Eric Bachmann.

In the early 1960s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released from Gulag and from exile, published 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,' the narrative of a single day in the ten-year labor camp imprisonment of a Soviet prisoner. With the political climate shifting hazardously back and forth, Solzhenitsyn, threatened by archival confiscation, used everything he learned from his time in Gulag to counter the KGB's actions against him. 'The Oak and the Calf' is an exceptional memoir, an all-too-real portrait of life in Soviet Russia in well-written Solzhenitsyn style.