A calf butts an oak tree

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Publish Date: 1998-02-01
Features: About this book: We dedicate to our readers "The Oak and the Calf," a memoir by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a former Soviet writer and the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (the author wrote "Notes from Underground"). It records the author's main experiences, his rise and fall, his ascent and descent during the 15 years from the 1960s to 1974. This book documents his journey from an "underground writer" under the Soviet system to the "end of a hero." It reflects, from one perspective, the ups and downs of the Soviet literary and political scenes.