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.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations and
Transliterations
Preface
Timeline of Solzhenitsyn¿s
Life and Works

Part
One: The Writer In Situ

1. The Quilted Jerkin:
Solzhenitsyn¿s Life and Art
2. Ice, Squared: ¿One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich¿
3. ¿Turgenev Never Knew¿: The
Shorter Fictions of the 1950s and 1960s
4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution
5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle
6. Rebel versus Rabble: Cancer Ward

Part
Two: The Writer Ex Situ

7. Twilight of All the
Russias: The Red Wheel
8. Return: The Shorter
Fictions of the 1990s
9: Modernist?

Appendix. Three Interviews
with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003¿7)

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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.