Solzhenitsyn

[Patricia A. Burak (OIS)]

Dear SEELANGS Members:
I am a new member of your list serv, altho I did utilize your broad
knowledge a few months ago (an unidentified quote by the author Oe, a
Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize some years ago) when I was
completing my dissertation in Russian language and literature. I
thank those of you who helped me identify that quote at that time.

I am resuming teaching a course on Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn (LIT
227) which I designed and taught in 1991.  For some reasons, I have
not been teaching since that time, and others have taught the course.
 They (the other teachers) were unsuccessful in finding THE FIRST
CIRCLE, and used other texts. I am really interested in teaching THE
FIRST CIRCLE, and have met the same problem: it seems that it is
completely out of print, and not even used copies are available!

Does anyone have any good suggestions? I know that copying is a
possibility, with the publishers official approval, but short of
that?

If not, I would like to hear from anyone who has taught CANCER WARD
in their undergraduate classes (in English, to students who are
taking the course as an Arts and Sciences course in "The Great
Works", not a Russian literature student necessarily).  I would like
to hear from you if you have done so, and what reception the novel
received among those students. My students in 1991 loved THE FIRST
CIRCLE (eventually!), and I am reluctant to give up yet.

I look forward to being a contributing member of this listserv!
Patricia A. Burak, Director
Office of International Services
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-2380

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Patricia A. Burak, Director
Office of International Services
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-2380