Overwriting Chaos

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