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A carregar... The First Circle (original 1968; edição 1968)por Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Autor)
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  ) CarolKub | Oct 30, 2023 |  This book is a must read and plainly explains why progressive ideology does not work. Semi biographical. From wikipedia; The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of Gulag inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War. Unlike inhabitants of other Gulag labor camps, the sharashka zeks were adequately fed and enjoyed good working conditions; however, if they found disfavor with the authorities, they could be instantly shipped to Siberia. The title is an allusion to Dante's first circle, or limbo of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other virtuous pagans, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell. The novel is about friendship, complicity and conscience. Themes include stoic integrity and humanism. The author shares how hard it is to maintain dignity while in a system designed to rob you of dignity. (  ) Kristelh | May 12, 2023 | ) Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 | Murtra | Nov 17, 2020 | David.llib.cat | Oct 24, 2020 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Indirectly based on Solzhenitsyn's own experiences of working as a mathematician in a prison research institute, The First Circle is set amongst a group of scientists caught up in the system of prison camps. Forced to work for the secret police, they debate the morality of what they doing but are cruelly aware that failure to co-operate would secure them a worse fate. The title is a reference to the first, and least unpleasant, circle of Hell in Dante's inferno but Solzhenitsyn's characters know that the lower circles of hell are there in the shape of the forced labour camps and that these await them if they make a false step. This searing insight into the dark side of Soviet life in the final years of Stalin's regime is both a brooding account of human nature and a scrupulously exact description of a historical period. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Group Read, July 2019: The First Circle
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