Apricot Jam and Other Stories

After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories— interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred to as “binary”—join Solzhenitsyn’s already available work as some of the most powerful literature of the twentieth century.

With Soviet and post-Soviet life as their focus, they weave and shift inside their shared setting, illuminating the Russian experience under the Soviet regime. In “The Upcoming Generation,” a professor promotes a dull but proletarian student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds himself arrested and, in a striking twist of fate, his student becomes his interrogator. In “Nastenka,” two young women with the same name lead routine, ordered lives—until the Revolution exacts radical change on them both.

The most eloquent and acclaimed opponent of government oppression, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and his work continues to receive international acclaim. Available for the first time in English, Apricot Jam: And Other Stories is a striking example of Solzhenitsyn’s singular style and only further solidifies his place as a true literary giant.

Dupa ani de existenta in exil, Aleksandr Soljenitin s-a intors in Rusia in 1994 si a publicat o serie de opt povesti puternic imperecheate. Aceste povesti inovatoare - interconectate si juxtapuse folosind o metoda experimentala pe care Soljenitsin se refera la „binar” - se alatura lucrarii deja disponibile a lui Soljenitsin ca fiind una dintre cele mai puternice literatura din secolul XX. Avand in vedere viata sovietica si post-sovietica, ele tes se deplaseaza in cadrul lor comun, iluminand experienta rusa sub regimul sovietic.