by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483100462
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«Archipiélago Gulag I» is the historical essay by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on the Soviet prison system, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in hardcover (832 pages, in Spanish).
This first volume of Solzhenitsyn's testimony on the Gulag gathers the first two parts of a work structured in seven: «La industria penitenciaria» and «El movimiento continuo». Written clandestinely between 1958 and 1967, the book brings together direct testimonies from 227 people to reconstruct the reality of the Soviet forced-labor camps and give voice back to those silenced by extermination. The edition is based on the 1980 version, revised and expanded by the author, which he considered definitive.
Work included in the Andanzas collection from Tusquets. Translation made from the 1980 edition revised and expanded by the author.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
