Books
November, 1972
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is magnificent evidence that the great tradition of Russian realism still lives despite the repression of artistic freedom and the horrors of history. Indeed, it is precisely the horrors of history that Solzhenitsyn has chosen for the subject of his fourth novel, a panorama of Russia's entry into World War One. As he says in his preface, this is the small first installment of an immense work that "may take as long as 20 years,&q...
