An uncut edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle is finally
coming out in English.
The novel, completed in 1964 and banned by Soviet officials even after Solzhenitsyn cut nine chapters, is set in a gulag where scientists and scholars have been sent for alleged subversion against the Stalinist regime.
A shortened, 580-page version of "The First Circle" came out in English in 1968 -- the text had mysteriously been leaked out of the Soviet Union -- despite objections by the author, who believed his work was being exploited for profit, and by scholars who feared that the book's release could jeopardize his safety.
[Spaceeba, E!]
How weirdly prescient of you to post that then!
Posted by: looby | August 31, 2008 at 06:03 PM