![]() ![]() Thus, he enrolled in a correspondence course in literature from the University of Moscow and even tried to get a role on stage as an actor while pursuing his science studies.įollowing his marriage in 1940 and his graduation in 1941, he joined the Red Army immediately after Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia and became an artillery officer. He claims that he chose these fields of study only because of the financial security which they would provide him, but that even at this time, literature was the greatest attraction in his life, a fact that was recognized by his teachers. Solzhenitsyn attended school there, and in 1938, he entered Rostov University as a student of mathematics and physics. Life was extremely difficult there the young mother and son had to live in thatched huts and, at one time, even in a stable. Shortly afterward, Solzhenitsyn's mother moved to Rostov-na-Donu, a city some 600 miles south of Moscow. Style and Narrative Perspective in One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichĪlexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, a small resort town in the Caucasus mountain range on December 11, 1918, six months after the death of his father in a hunting accident. ![]() ![]()
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