30 volumes by Solzhenitsyn

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" Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife on Thursday presented the initial three 
volumes of the first full collection of his works to be published in Russia, 
a country still struggling with the legacy of the oppressive era he 
documented.

Natalya Solzhenitsyn smiles at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday, Nov. 
16, 2006. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife and editor on Thursday presented the 
initial three volumes of the first full collection of his works to be 
published in Russia, a country still struggling with the legacy of the 
oppressive era he documented.

It was a cherished moment for the aging Nobel laureate, who has been through 
prison camps and exile and, Natalya Solzhenitsyn said, feels the "draining 
of the life force" as his 88th birthday approaches. He was not at the 
presentation and his wife did not elaborate on his health.


"Alexander Isayevich told me that the French have a saying: 'Nothing comes 
too late for he who is able to wait,'" Mrs. Solzhenitsyn said.


With financial support from a state-owned bank, the 30-volume project to be 
completed in four years marks the latest twist in what the reclusive 
author's wife called the "very dramatic fate of Solzhenitsyn's books," which 
helped reveal the brutality of the Soviet system and dictator Josef Stalin's 
labor camps.

Natalya Solzhenitsyn, who has nurtured her husband's work and protected his 
privacy, recounted how that drama began on Nov. 18, 1936 _ 70 years ago 
Saturday _ when she said Solzhenitsyn, a first-year university student, 
conceived what eventually became "The Red Wheel." Solzhenitsyn finished the 
10-volume saga about the Russian Revolution in 1990 and considers it his 
most important work."

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