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The long narrative poem composed and committed to memory during Solzhenitsyn's prison-camp years is based on the Russian writer's experiences as a young artillery officer during the Second World War
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"The pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers thought." - Clive James,<i> New Statesman </i>
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