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Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914 tells the story of Tannenberg from the Russian perspective. Concentrating more on the "fog of war" at the army and corps level than on the horrors of the front line, Solzhenitsyn has produced one of the best fictional reconstructions of a battle I have read. He exposes with brutal clarity the poor organisation ...
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"August 1914" is admittedly a most difficult text for translation; still, in fairness to the reader, the English version of the novel should have been labeled by the publishers "adapted" or "paraphrased" by Michael Glenny, rather than translated by him. it is hard to think of another recent instance where the old maxim traduttore--traditore would be more apt.
August 1914 is, as we have noted, part of a trilogy and cannot yet be judged as a whole. Meanwhile, judgments on it in the West have been varied. In the end this seems to boil down to a matter of the predilections of critics. The taste for the great set-piece novel has rather gone out in many Western circles.
