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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Although Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s reputation rests largely on his long prose works, this prolific writer sought to experiment in numerous genres. The short story “Matryona’s House” is an excellent example of Solzhenitsyn’s attention to detail as well as his reverence for old Russian values as exemplified by the peasant woman Matryona and her home. In addition to his short stories, in 1964 Solzhenitsyn published Etyudy i krokhotnye rasskazy, a collection of prose poems (translated in Stories and Prose Poems by Alexander Solzhenitsyn,...

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