Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Proterevshi glaza [Rubbing One’s Eyes]

Moscow: Nash dom – L’Âge d’Homme, 1999. Item #1417

368 pages. Original publisher’s illustrated card covers with printed dust jacket. 21 cm. One of 3,000 copies. Old bookstore label and price tag of "V. Kamkim". Near fine.

First edition of this posthumous collection of previously unpublished verse by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), one of the most consequential literary and political voices of the 20th century. The book brings together early poetic works written during and after the author’s incarceration in the Soviet Gulag system, including "Dorozhen’ka," "Lagernye stikhi," "Liubi revoliutsiiu," and the eponymous "Proterevshi glaza." These works, some of which circulated only in samizdat, illuminate the moral and metaphysical evolution of a writer emerging from totalitarian darkness with uncompromising moral clarity.

Price: $100.00