Solzhenitsyn, A. I.

Bodalsia telenok s dubom: ocherki literaturnoi zhizni [The Oak and the Calf]

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1975. Item #1479

629, [2] p.; 16.4 × 11.4 cm. In original plain publisher’s leather wrappers. A reduced-format edition, printed on thin, delicate paper and intended for clandestine distribution within the Soviet Union.

First Paris edition of Solzhenitsyn’s controversial memoir chronicling his literary life, ideological battles, and eventual expulsion from the USSR. The book includes his critical portrayal of Soviet institutions and the cultural elite, including contentious passages about Aleksandr Tvardovskii that prompted a public exchange with Tvardovskii’s daughter Valentina in Novyi mir.

Price: $150.00