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In the First Circle

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In the First Circle

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In the First Circle (Russian: ? ????? ??????, V kruge pervom) is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released in 1968. A fuller version of the book was published in English in 2009.The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of gulag inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War. Unlike inhabitants of other gulag labor camps, the sharashka zeks were adequately fed and enjoy good working conditions; however if they found disfavor with the authorities, they could be instantly shipped to Siberia. The title is an allusion to Dante's first circle of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other non-Christians, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell.

Dewey decimal classification 891.73/44 21

Isbn 0-06-147901-2

Lcc PG3488.O4 V23 1997

Number of pages 741

Oclc 37011369

English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_First_Circle

Spanish wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_primer_c?rculo