Interview with Richard Tempest on his new Solzhenitsyn book

Slavic languages and literatures professor Richard Tempest has written a new book, Overwriting Chaos, about the literary artistry of Russian novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Read his interview about it here.

“Every story, every novel is a complete imagined world unto itself, with a humankind, geography, climate, flora and its own logic. It can be very playful and magical. That’s the way I look at him,” Tempest said. “As an artist, he had tremendous fun writing. He liked all kinds of tricks and in-jokes and private witticisms.”