L'Archipel du Goulag

"L'Archipel du Goulag is a book that escapes all genres." Telerama Immense fresco of the Soviet concentrationary universe, L'Archipel du Goulag was written underground. The thousands of letters and testimonies received by Alexander Soljenitsyne after the publication of his novel Une jour d'Ivan Denissovich formed the basis of this work, which he described as "literary investigation"; these documents made him the custodian of the misfortune of a whole people. secretly released from USSR, this explosive text aroused, during its publication in the West in 1974, an awareness of the realities of the Soviet regime.Alexandre Soljenitsyne (1918-2008) was a Russian writer and dissident. Incarcerated and then sent to the Goulag in 1945, he was detained there for eight years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, he was the author of a considerable work.