В круге первом

From the outset, feel the tacit but heartbreaking valley of tears of a fervent religious believer like Solzhenitsyn; observe the human disillusionment through characters who—and I'm talking about none of them—have the slightest control over their fate. Neither the prisoners, like engineer Bobynin or Lev Grigorich Rubin—who is not fooled and knows that in the sharashka they occupy the first exquisi…