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The first circle
What is the best novel about a bureaucracy? (2015-06-10)

There are post-war Eastern European novels galore, where to start? In the First Circle ?  Still, communist bureaucracies are no longer so typical, so I am not ready to award any of these novels first prize.  Gogol’s earlier Dead Souls also stands out as a Russian candidate.

*In the First Circle* (2011-04-19)

I was reading Solzhenitsyn’s novel during my time in Brazil and I believe he has become oddly underrated.  He is too often viewed as a historical artifact rather than as one of his century’s best writers.  Here was one of my favorite passages from what is perhaps his best novel ( Cancer Ward is another favorite):

Cancer ward
*In the First Circle* (2011-04-19)

I was reading Solzhenitsyn’s novel during my time in Brazil and I believe he has become oddly underrated.  He is too often viewed as a historical artifact rather than as one of his century’s best writers.  Here was one of my favorite passages from what is perhaps his best novel ( Cancer Ward is another favorite):

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